Hi regarding download always in using icedtea-web

[Jiri Vanek]

On 11/13/18 4:35 PM, Treutwein Bernhard wrote:
>> one tell me where to place this file or set this property using the launcher
>> version of the RedHat IceTea-Web ditribution?
>>
>> Also, how can I use itweb-settings to pull up the console or set other
>> options using the RedHat version.
>>
> hmm, 
> 
> I am starting itweb-settings via:
> 
> java -Xbootclasspath/a:netx.jar  net.sourceforge.jnlp.controlpanel.ControlPanel

This is generic way which will do thejob, but some minor issues may occure. The script we use to
lucnh it on linux substitue some expected proeprties. Anyway, really shold be ok/
> 
> But  since I built my netx.jar from the source 1.7.1, I don't know under which 
> name the RedHat IceTea-Web distribution delivers the netx.jar file (in Alex 
> Kaskos ojdkbuild see https://github.com/ojdkbuild/ojdkbuild it is named javaws.jar).
Yah, I dont know why Alex did this renaming.

> 
> But the mentioned property does not change the "download always" behavior for
> my setup.

Can you please build current tip of 1.7 or tip of future 1.8?
The patch to fix the redownloading on windows went recently there, but was poorly tested.

Tahnx a lot!
  J.
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>   Bernhard
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