Preserving jre/lib/security/cacerts

[Niels Thykier]

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On 2011-03-21 11:23, Tomas Salfischberger wrote:
> L.S,
> 
> I just noticed that Ubuntu replaces JDK_HOME/jre/lib/security/cacerts
> with a symlink to /etc/java-6-sun/security/cacerts, this allows for
> installing updated Java packages without overwriting the cacerts file
> and losing any user-installed certificates. Is there a reason it is not
> done this way in Debian? Or might this be a good feature-request?
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Tomas Salfischberger
> 
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Hey

As far as I can tell we do this with at least sun-java6 (in
sid/testing); but not openjdk-6 (which points to
/etc/ssl/certs/java/cacerts).  Is Ubuntu really using
/etc/java-6-sun/security/cacerts for openjdk-6 as well?

~Niels

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