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Re: Setting up updatecenter package for clean removal?

From: Laird Nelson <ljnelson_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 15:58:37 -0400

On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 3:45 PM, Laird Nelson <ljnelson_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 3:23 PM, Joe Di Pol <joe.dipol_at_oracle.com> wrote:
>
>> The bottom line here is: don't create a package that installs files
>> directly into a GlassFish domain. Instead, install the files elsewhere
>> and require some step that deploys (or whatever) the software into
>> the domain.
>>
>
> Yep; understood. I take it that IPS can't help me with this mythical step.
> :-)
>

To ease the pain somewhat, I've filed this RFE:
http://java.net/jira/browse/GLASSFISH-17180

The gist is it would be nice if asadmin would look in a couple of
directories to resolve relative filenames passed to --libraries.

Best,
Laird