any plans for a self extracting bin distribution?

[Ted]

wow thanks, that actually worked, I used rpm2cpio because I couldn't get a
hold of rpm2targz, but after that it seems to all run fine!

thanks.

On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 9:03 PM, Andrew Hughes <ahughes at redhat.com> wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> > Just wondering if there's any plans for a self extracting bin
> > distribution like sun/oracle has. (Specifically for linux).
> >
> > This is about the only reason I can't switch (or attempt to switch)
> > from oracle-jdk to open-jdk.
> >
> > The self extracting distributions are very very useful when you're
> > running multiple versions of the jdk on the same machine or want to
> > be able to swap between multiple version very quickly. The package
> > installations like rpm/yum installations makes this extremely
> > difficult.
> >
>
> Have you looked at using something like rpm2targz on the rpms to turn
> them into normal tarballs?
>
> We don't have the resources to make binary releases as well as source,
> and they would need to work across all distributions.  Distributions
> already do a far better job of this.
>
> Note that the Oracle binaries statically link just about every dependency,
> so if a security issue occurs in something like libjpeg, zlib, libpng,
> lcms, libstdc++, etc., you need a new binary.  The distro binaries, via
> IcedTea, dynamically link to your system installation of these instead,
> so any security updates to them instantly apply to the OpenJDK binaries
> too.
>
> > --
> > Ted.
> >
> >
>
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Ted.
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