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From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
To: Chris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: After installing Java, what should I set JAVA_HOME to?
Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2016 14:07:37 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zikfdch2.fsf@elephly.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mvggxugq.fsf@gmail.com>


Chris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com> writes:

> Radoslav Petrov <more@edno.moe> writes:
>
>> About a proper fix: IMO iced3 JDK Guix definition needs to process
>> "java.security" file for the SunPKCS11 provider to override the
>> JAVA_HOME definition with the file in the current version/dir/instance
>> of the Guix package (I'm not sure for the correct term). But this have
>> to be done on each update/upgrade of NSS package. So I'm not so sure
>> about the proper way to fix this packaging problem.
>
> This sounds right to me.  If I'm hearing you correctly, there is a
> configuration file in the output of the icedtea package which needs to
> be updated whenever the nss package is updated.  I believe the correct
> way to accomplish that is to use "static composition" or "late static
> composition" [1].  I'm sure a convenient mechanism for this exists in
> Guix, but since I haven't done it myself, I'm not sure of the details.
>
> [1] See section 7.1.1 in Eelco Dolstra's thesis:
> http://nixos.org/%7Eeelco/pubs/phd-thesis.pdf

We are already genarting the keystore for IcedTea.  It just fails for
IcedTea 3, which is why it’s disabled there.  IcedTea 2 should work just
fine.

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Ricardo

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-12-01 13:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-11-12 18:48 After installing Java, what should I set JAVA_HOME to? Radoslav Petrov
2016-12-01  2:18 ` Chris Marusich
2016-12-01 13:06   ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-12-01 13:07   ` Ricardo Wurmus [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2016-11-02  4:38 Zachary Kanfer
2016-11-02  6:18 ` Chris Marusich
2016-11-08  4:20   ` Zachary Kanfer
2016-11-08 12:31     ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-11-08 15:15     ` Ricardo Wurmus
2016-11-09  7:01     ` Chris Marusich
2016-11-09 21:22       ` Hartmut Goebel
2016-11-28  5:15       ` Zachary Kanfer
2016-11-28  8:45         ` Ricardo Wurmus
2016-11-30 22:01           ` zloster
2016-12-01  8:59             ` Ricardo Wurmus
2016-11-28  9:59         ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-11-28 17:08         ` Hartmut Goebel
2016-11-29  2:34         ` Chris Marusich
2016-11-08 15:13 ` Ricardo Wurmus

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