Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 18:34:19 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> To: Alan Batie <alan@batie.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: jdk13 brings in most of linux Message-ID: <20020226183419.B33436@grimoire.chen.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <20020225145033.A50428@agora.rdrop.com>; from alan@batie.org on Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 02:50:34PM -0800 References: <20020225145033.A50428@agora.rdrop.com>
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On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 02:50:34PM -0800, Alan Batie wrote: > Does the jdk13 installation really have to install all of redhat with it? > I know that's overstating it, but having used rpm on Red Hat to do a minor > upgrade of a single utility and having it practically reinstall the whole > system, this makes me awfully nervous... It doesn't install the *whole* of Redhat, just a major portion :-). After you've installed the native JDK, you can deinstall the Linux stuff. It's only required for the build. Furthermore, you can use your native 1.3 to bootstrap rebuilds of JDK 1.3; so you really only need to do this once. Cheers. -- Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- If you're right 90% of the time, why quibble about the remaining 3%? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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