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Default laucher of the from the unzipped or installed by installer installation shall not read config file from a shared location as it prevents different installation to have different configurations. Which can be very problematic especially between different version as 4.1 and 4.0.
Index: launcher/unix/netbeans =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/ide/launcher/unix/netbeans,v retrieving revision 1.16 diff -u -3 -p -r1.16 netbeans --- launcher/unix/netbeans 3 Jan 2005 16:06:58 -0000 1.16 +++ launcher/unix/netbeans 19 Apr 2005 16:33:48 -0000 @@ -32,9 +32,10 @@ if [ -f "$progdir"/../etc/netbeans.conf . "$progdir"/../etc/netbeans.conf fi -if [ -f /etc/netbeans.conf ] ; then - . /etc/netbeans.conf -fi +# following should be done just in RPM or Solaris Launcher +# if [ -f /etc/netbeans.conf ] ; then +# . /etc/netbeans.conf +# fi args="$@"
cvs -q ci -m "#58052: Do not read /etc/netbeans.conf" Checking in launcher/unix/netbeans; /cvs/ide/launcher/unix/netbeans,v <-- netbeans new revision: 1.17; previous revision: 1.16 done
Will need to go to 4.1 version as well.
Please also note that RPM and SolPkg shall behave in the same way - issue 58053
Not many positive reviews, but let's backport anyway: cvs ci -m "#58052: Backport to 4.1 - disabling read of /etc/netbeans.conf" cvs commit: Examining . Checking in netbeans; /cvs/ide/launcher/unix/netbeans,v <-- netbeans new revision: 1.16.16.1; previous revision: 1.16