Comments on jpackage (JEP 343)

[Kevin Rushforth]

> As to why it has this Requires, perhaps I need to address it at the JavaFX
> mailinglist.

Yes, that would be best, as this is no longer related to jpackage.

-- Kevin


On 9/19/2019 12:43 AM, Sverre Moe wrote:
> Yes it would seem so.
>
> I am still perplexed to why it has an RPM Requires libavcodec-ffmpeg.so.56.
> That one does not exist as far as I can find anywhere. It is not provided
> with the ffmpeg package.
> I thought perhaps it was the same library as libavcodec.so.56 only named
> differently, but considering that also is listed among the Requires it is a
> distinct package.
> As to why it has this Requires, perhaps I need to address it at the JavaFX
> mailinglist.
>
> How does jpackage accumulate its RPM Requires list? I thought it had it in
> a default RPM spec file, but I don't see how that can be, we use our own
> custom spec file, and jpackage adds many additional Requires not used in
> our own. Only when javafx-web is within the built runtime image used with
> jpackage, is these extra Requires used.
> The RPM spec template file does not have any hard coded Requires, only
> those from PACKAGE_DEPENDENCIES. I looked around in the source code, and
> could only see this was set from the command line arguments for
> dependencies. Does it scan the runtime image to produce its additional
> Requires list? I have the javafx as dependencies in my project, but those
> are not "scanned" for linux package dependencies.
> https://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk/sandbox/file/bf06a1d3aef6/src/jdk.jpackage/linux/classes/jdk/jpackage/internal/
>
> Trying with the --linux-package-deps none of those dependencies ended up in
> the built RPM package. Only those from jpackage and those from our custom
> spec file.
>
> /Sverre
>
>
> tor. 19. sep. 2019 kl. 01:09 skrev Michael Paus <mp at jugs.org>:
>
>> If you don't use audio or video, you will probably not need it.
>>
>> Have a look here: https://ffmpeg.org/
>>
>>> Message: 2
>>> Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2019 23:44:19 +0200
>>> From: Sverre Moe <sverre.moe at gmail.com>
>>> To: Philip Race <philip.race at oracle.com>
>>> Cc: core-libs-dev at openjdk.java.net
>>> Subject: Re: Comments on jpackage (JEP 343)
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>>>
>>> It is actually the javafx-web module that requires these.
>>>
>>> Anyone know what part of the Web module that needs the libavcodec and
>>> libavcoded-ffmpeg?
>>>
>>> We are using a small part of the web module, just WebView for Tooltip
>> with
>>> HTML. No Video or Audio.
>>>
>>> /Sverre
>>