ebuild for sun's java 6 beta jre
*** Bug 133724 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Created attachment 87016 [details] sun-jre-bin-1.6.0_beta.ebuild ebuild
Created attachment 87017 [details] Manifest
Created attachment 87018 [details] files/digest-sun-jre-bin-1.6.0_beta digest
Created attachment 87019 [details] files/sun-jre-bin-1.6.0_beta env.d/java/sun-jre-bin-1.6.0_beta
Beta2 is out and the beta1 ebuild does not work for this version ( at least for me ).
How much effort would it be to add this as a generation-3 with the new java setup? Is Java 6 a generational change?
No, no generational change is necessary. Generation-2 is more than sufficient for through at least Java 6.
Beta versions of JDK 6 have a few changes that break other packages, until it gets out of beta stage it will not go into main portage tree. For now please use Java overlay at overlays.gentoo.org
It's also worth noting that the prerelease is under a different license which doesn't seem to let us readily package it... so, it won't be going into the main tree until its official released.