Re: [gentoo-java] eselect java broken?

[Caster]

Joshua Nichols wrote:
> You forgot to attach the patch :)
>

Damn :) Here it is.

> But it's moot, since I just barely fixed it before seeing your message.
>> But then I've run into another problem. It allows root to set user-vm as
>> well as system-vm, while java-config-2 doesn't. java-config-2 then lists
>> it as active with java-config -L (probably causes other problems too).
>> There's no way to unset it but removing /root/.gentoo/java-config-2
>> So, eselect java shouldn't list or allow changing of user-vm for root.
>> Haven't tried to fix that.
>>
>>
> Right you are. It should die now if you try to set a user vm as root.
>
> On a related note, it seems that the eselect module sets stuff by hand,
> ie by creating symlinks and whatnot. I'm not sure if this was
> intentional, or if it should be using java-config to do this instead.
>

Using java-config to set stuff would be easy. To list stuff, it would
need to parse its output. I'm not even sure if an user can determine
system-vm with java-config. Maybe use the python functions that
java-config uses?

> In any event, thanks for the report. This is exactly the stuff I want to
> be found and fixed before we merge the migration-overlay into the main
> tree.
>

Glad to help :)

Caster