java and FAI

[Nicolas Triantafillou]

W. Borgert wrote:
> The "one real way" to install Sun Java on Debian is called
> mpkg-j2se (installable from unstable/sid).  You download the
> *.bin files from Sun and make *.deb packages from them using
> the mpkg-j2se command.  During this transition you have to
> agree to the Sun license.  Put the resulting *.debs in your
> FAI package repository and just install - no need to agree
> to license again.  Also, you get a current(!) Java, not the
> old blackdown stuff.  Cool, yeah?
> 
> One minor problem: mpkg-jj2se does not yet handle the
> alternatives (bug #263729).  You have to do this "manually"
> in your FAI recipes.

Thankyou for this tip, and to everyone else who helped.

Just a bit of a summary:

Michael Tautschnig was also nice enough to send me some debs he made, 
which are working great. I'll definately look into this though for 
keeping my packages up to date :)

Will Lowe also suggested one method which worked without a problem 
before discovering the debs, which was simply extract the .bin's from 
sun, tar it up and get the FAI script to extract it upon install.

Thanks again all,

Nicolas.