[External] : Re: RFR: 8350594: Misleading warning about install dir for DMG packaging

[Michael Hall]

> On Mar 3, 2025, at 1:37 PM, Alexey Semenyuk <alexey.semenyuk at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Michael,
> 
> Thank you for the detailed report! I filed [1] ticket that, I hope, captures all findings from your report. Let me know if anything was missed or misunderstood.
> 
> [1] https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8351073
> 
> - Alexey
> 

Hello Alexey,

>  jpackage should copy them as-is.

It would be nice if this was the case but I think you need to be sure changes are made to the Info.plist to ensure the correct version is indicated in a few places. 

Apple offers something like plist buddy that could maybe be used.

Apache looked to have some commons confguration package that included plist. 

I used to have code that did some things with plists. I thought about coming up with something to handle general editing but haven’t.

There were issues I still ran into related to the jre that I put together for this. I’m not sure whether they were due to it being an early, not quite ready, jdk 25 build. Or I still also missed something in making it a working jre. 

You might want to have some test(s) of the installed to be sure it is a valid working one.

Just java —version maybe for one. And/or doing something with /usr/libexec/java_home.

Whatever else might seem appropriate. I couldn’t jlnk an application with mine for some reason was one issue, that led to others. 

Otherwise yes, if you are going to offer a system jre installer it needs some additional Mac specific changes, I’m sure you’ll determine what they might be. 

Thanks for following up.

Mike 


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