FS#14004 - Installing jdk 1.5 or lower?

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Maarten Billemont (lhunath) - Sunday, 29 March 2009, 09:02 GMT
Last edited by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Monday, 30 March 2009, 17:16 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity High
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

For the life of me I can't figure out how one would install jdk 1.5 or lower on archlinux.

Since the way java works means you need to be able to have 1.4, 1.5 and 1.6 available if you want to be able to build packages that use those, pacman should provide a means of installing those side by side, and provide a means of switching between the active JDK, just like featured in any other distro (Gentoo, Debian, Ubuntu, ...) and through the relevant configuration panels in OS X or Windows.

Feel free to mark invalid if this functinality is already here and I just completely missed it.

I noticed this because I've got an Archlinux server where I need to build the Geronimo application server from source using Maven, and it requires the JDK 1.5. The build isn't compatible with JDK 1.6 for reasons related to classpath and such.
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Closed by  Andreas Radke (AndyRTR)
Monday, 30 March 2009, 17:16 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Comment by kkl2401 (kkl2401) - Sunday, 29 March 2009, 10:29 GMT
I don't think this'll be implemented. First of all Archlinux generally doesn't provide more versions of the same package and second of all, see also  FS#13330 .
Comment by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Monday, 30 March 2009, 17:16 GMT
we don't support to install more than one version of a pkg at once. feel free to build your desired version using ABS.

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