[izpack-users] Some files aren't copied, long filenames?

[David Perez]

Hi,

Thanks for your suggestions.

I mean JRE for running the installer.
This is clearly a bug in JRE 1.5.0_06.  I have reported the bug to Sun.

I'm using 3.6.2 because I developed the installer some months ago.

Miraodb schrieb:
> Hi david,
>
>   
>> I have detected something strange with IzPack version 3.6.2.
>>     
>
> is that a typing mistake or do you actually have 3.6.2 instead of 3.8.1 ?
>
>   
>> I created my installer and installed on one machine with JRE 1.5.0_06
>> and Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition**.
>> I checked that one file was missing.
>>
>> So, I looked into the JAR, and opened with an hexa editor the contents
>> of the packs/pack0 file.
>> And I found that the entry for the missing file was there:
>>
>>
>>     
> $INSTALL_PATH/weblma/WEB-INF/classes/fcc/ima/cocoon/GzipNonCachingProcessing
> Pipeline$StreamHandler.class
>   
>> If I reinstall in the same machine, the same error happens again.
>>
>> If I install in another machine with the same operating system and JRE
>> 1.5.0_03 and 1.5.0_05, everything goes well.
>>
>> Can be the cause the name being so long?
>> The filename is one of the longest one.
>> The selected install path is in both cases a short one:
>>     
> c:\fcc\servidor-ima
>   
>> Is this a bug?
>> Has been corrected in newer versions of IzPack?
>> Has something similar happened to anyone else?
>>     
>
> >From what you wrote, i wouldn't say it's a bug.
> I would rather analyse the situation.
> First of all, is there any reason why you use an old version ?
> 3.6.2 was long time ago and i can assure you that thousands of things
> changed since then. you can check the logs for a summary.
> Now, i'm not saying installing the newest version would solve your issue,
> coz i see also that you use JRE 1.5.
> We've been through this discussion many times.
> So far IzPack doesn't support 1.5. Meaning that it could work with it, but
> we can't assure it for 100% since 1.5 is still buggy and under development.
> A good example is that using 1.5.0_06 it fails, but with 1.5.0_03 and
> 1.5.0_05 everything goes well from what you say.
>
> At this point, i can suggest two things:
>
> - Update Izpack to latest version 3.8.1.
> - Either use 1.4.x_yy JRE or 1.5.0_03 and 1.5.0_05 since it seems to be
> working.
>
> There's also another point, when you talk about JRE, do you mean the jre
> used to compile the installer or to run it ?
> It's two different issues.
>
> Cheers,
> fabrice
>
>
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