Oracle Java 6 On Debian

!! ABANDONED !! - use java-package (make-jpkg) which went into debian again!

• This package does not build anymore with java 6u37

Rationale

• Most of our software didn't work with OpenJDK on debian stable Squeeze.
• All our software is tested and works with Oracle Java 6.
• It's much less work to backport oracle java as all the QA has already been done.

Build Instructions

• Download oracle sun java 6 binary packages (.bin NOT .rpm) for both 32 and 64 bit

• Rename the jdk to use amd64 instead of x64 as architecture (eg. mv jdk-6u30-linux-x64.bin jdk-6u30-linux-amd64.bin)

• Create .orig.tar.gz file (e.g sun-java6_6.30.orig.tar.gz)

  % tar tf sun-java6_6.30.orig.tar.gz sun-java6-6.30/ sun-java6-6.30/jdk-6u30-linux-amd64.bin sun-java6-6.30/jdk-6u30-linux-i586.bin

• Copy both .bin files into the repository too

• Rename repository from sun-java6 to sun-java6-6.RELEASE (e.g sun-java6-6.30, you can also just use git-new-workdir)

  git new-workdir sun-java6 sun-java6-6.30

• debuild -uc -us -i'(.git|README)'

• debuild -uc -us -i'(.git|README)' -ai386 -B (to build the 32bit version, produces wrong dependencies if build on amd64)

Install Dependencies

If you build your java package without chroot/pbuilder/cowbuilder you will need to install a few debian packages. For a complete list please see the file debian/control.

• Debian packaging: apt-get install build-essential devscripts debhelper
• Sun-java6 build dependencies: apt-get install defoma libasound2 unixodbc libxi6 libxt6 libxtst6 lib32asound2 ia32-libs

Changelog

6u37:

• security upgrade due to unintended remote management features

6u31:

• google appengine apps do not start anymore, timezone defaultZoneTL was removed in 6u31 (http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=6928)

6u30:

• no known problems