Modules and packages and demos

[Dalibor Topic]

On 05/29/09 22:06, Mark Reinhold wrote:
> Here are the corresponding Debian packages:
>
>   $ ls -l build/jigsaw-pkgs/
>   total 33107
>   -rw-r--r-- 1 mr green  6177270 May 29 10:04 jdk.awt_7_ea_all.deb
>   -rw-r--r-- 1 mr green     1206 May 29 10:04 jdk.base_7_ea_all.deb
>   -rw-r--r-- 1 mr green  4127386 May 29 10:10 jdk.boot_7_ea_i386.deb
>   -rw-r--r-- 1 mr green  2777180 May 29 10:04 jdk.swing_7_ea_all.deb
>   -rw-r--r-- 1 mr green 20774498 May 29 10:04 jdk_7_ea_all.deb
>   $
>
> These aren't very well compressed at the moment; in particular, they
> don't use pack200 for class files or lzma for binaries.
LZMA compression and pack200 compression have just been implemented. 
Total size of packages for different modules taken together now is about 
half of the numbers above, i.e. around 18M. That compares (in a somewhat 
orange apple flavored way) quite favorably with the around 78M for the 
6u14 binary JDK RPM installer for Linux, for example.
>   The package
> metadata is singularly uninformative, and also incorrect, e.g., the
> packages should be labeled "i386" rather than "all".  Dalibor is, as
> I write this, furiously hacking jpkg to address these problems.
>   
Yeah, I've temporarily removed the architecture field from the control 
file. The bugfix
for it is forthcoming in a couple of hours. Along with a few more simple 
to implement arguments to specify maintainer name, e-mail, short and 
long descriptions of the software, the architecture, and additional 
metadata in general.

cheers,
dalibor topic

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