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Issue 58052 requests the standard launcher to not read /etc/netbeans.conf, but this shall not be true for package one, as in case of RPM and SolPkgs we support just one version of NetBeans - either 4.0 or 4.1. That is the reason the RPM and SolPkg packager shall modify the launcher script to once again read /etc/netbeans.conf
wait a minute. it's not that simple. We must detect if /etc/netbeans.conf already exists on the system and if so *overwrite* it with the new version. The other alternative is to use a different name for 4.1, say /etc/netbeans41.conf Please contact me before you proceed with the fix. mzlamal is not responsible for the RPM packages anymore. Last time it was Martin Krauskop We need to do the same thing for solpkg as well, not just rpm
Pending management decision. Not a priority, because we don't build rpms and solpkg packages at the moment. Might change in the future.
Currently for debian packages and NB 5.5/5.5.1 /usr/share/netbeans/5.5/etc/netbeans.conf is symlink to /etc/netbeans5.5/netbeans.conf. It follows Linux packaging standards that config files should be in /etc folder. rpm should use the same when they will be built. So in the end it is not launcher issue but package issue to setup netbeans.conf correctly ie. put actual file into /etc and create symlink from ../netbeans/.../etc/netbeans.conf to /etc.