Bug 116981 - request for emul-linux-x86-java-1.5
Bug#: 116981 Product:  Gentoo Linux Version: unspecified Platform: AMD64
OS/Version: Linux Status: RESOLVED Severity: enhancement Priority: P2
Resolution: FIXED Assigned To: amd64@gentoo.org Reported By: ramana.kumar@gmail.com
Component: Applications
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Summary: request for emul-linux-x86-java-1.5
Keywords:  
Status Whiteboard: 
Opened: 2005-12-28 06:51 0000
Description:   Opened: 2005-12-28 06:51 0000 
request for emulation of 32-bit jre/jdk 1.5 for amd64.
see http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=78835

------- Comment #1 From Ramana Kumar 2005-12-28 06:56:55 0000 ------- 
in particular javaws is not currently available after emerge
=sun-jre-bin-1.5.06 or sun-jdk-1.5.06 on (~)amd64. this could be provided by
emulation.

------- Comment #2 From Simon Stelling (RETIRED) 2006-01-01 08:46:14 0000 ------- 
is there an app that doesn't work with the jre provided by the current
emul-linux-x86-java package? if not i don't see any benefit from adding it to
the tree, and our policy has been to only package libraries/packages that are
really needed

------- Comment #3 From Ramana Kumar 2006-01-03 13:46:38 0000 ------- 
the reason i asked is that i use two applications: topcoder's contest arena
(www.topcoder.com/tc) and wordbiz (www.isc.ro). topcoder needs javaws but
wordbiz runs a lot better and looks a lot better with java-1.5 (i'm using
sun's). 32-bit emulation of 1.5 would mean i only needed to install the one
java on my system - currently i need to have both sun-jre-bin (for wordbiz) and
blackdown-jdk (for javaws for topcoder) and need to run java-config every so
often to choose the right java to run...

------- Comment #4 From Thomas Matthijs (RETIRED) 2006-01-03 15:05:31 0000 ------- 
amd64 team, if you add it, don't forget to keep it package.mask'ed

------- Comment #5 From Jose daLuz 2006-08-14 06:08:06 0000 ------- 
Could we take another look at this? There are many web sites that work well
with 1.5 but don't work with 1.4, some to the point of crashing
firefox/firefox-bin. Also, 1.5 is needed for openoffice.org. 

In bug #78835 one of the reasons for not including a 32-bit 1.5 jre was the
imminent AMD64 support of openoffice.org, but 8 months later that's not here
yet. I had to do a manual, non-portage install to get 32-bit 1.5, think of how
many people have had to do this in the last 8 months!

I would prefer to work within Portage, not around it. Please reconsider this
decision.

------- Comment #6 From Josh Nichols (RETIRED) 2006-08-15 23:55:01 0000 ------- 
Now that we have the new Java system, and a 1.5 JRE that can be
redistributed... this should be pretty easy, and implemented cleanly.

So, with the new license, we can redistribute cleanly. With the new Java
system, a user can use eselect java-nsplugin to set the system nsplugin as
emul-linux-x86-java-1.5

------- Comment #7 From Frederik 'Freso' S. Olesen 2006-09-08 12:02:02 0000 ------- 
So, what is the status of this? Is anyone working on it, or... ?

------- Comment #8 From Josh Nichols (RETIRED) 2006-09-08 12:31:50 0000 ------- 
I had started working on this recently. If all goes well, I hope to add
something in the next few days.

------- Comment #9 From Josh Nichols (RETIRED) 2006-09-14 20:33:08 0000 ------- 
Added to portage as emul-linux-x86-java-1.5.0.08.