[[chef-dev]] Re: [[chef-dev]] Re: JAVA_HOME, sun vs. openjdk inconsistencies

[Chad Woolley < >]

On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 4:00 PM, Joshua Timberman 
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 wrote:
> Hi Chad!
>
> I made the change to openjdk because the Sun java package is considered
> deprecated (though still available) in both Debian and Ubuntu. To support
> installing Sun's package where it is available, we should utilize either a
> separate recipe in the kava cookbook, or control the preferred package via
> an attribute. The default should be openjdk, as it's the default on all of
> Devian, Ubuntu and RHEL/Centos.
>
> Please open a ticket in the cookbook project. If you have a patch, please
> link to the github branch.
>

Pull request sent
(http://github.com/thewoolleyman/cookbooks/tree/COOK-312).  I made a
separate cookbook, java_sun.  This seemed cleaner than grafting it
back into the main java cookbook as a separate recipe, especially
since I didn't know what to do with 'supports os' in metadata.rb if a
single recipe only supports certain platforms...