NAME

       jh_manifest - Adds or/and modifies manifests for jars

SYNOPSIS

       jh_manifest  [debhelper options]  [options]  jar1 ... jarN

       jh_manifest  [debhelper options]  [options]

DESCRIPTION

       Javahelper tool to add or update manifests in a jar file. It can be used in two modes. If
       passed jar files, it will only process these jar files. Otherwise it will update all jar
       files in the packages it acts on.

       When processing a package, the debhelper(7) exclude option will make jh_manifest ignore
       matching jar files.

FILES

       debian/package.manifest (or debian/manifest)
           This file consist of a list of jar files and values to add to their manifests. Values
           in this file will take precedence over values in the original manifest (and command
           line arguments over values in this file).

           It is allowed to list a link in this file instead of an actual jar file, provided that
           the link can be resolved when jh_manifest processes it.

           If a jar file is listed here cannot be found, jh_manifest will print a warning, unless
           the jar file has been excluded.

           As of javahelper >= 0.32, you may add comments in this file. If the line starts with a
           "#" it is completely ignored.

           This file is ignored if jh_manifest is passed jar files via command line.

OPTIONS

       -c classpath, --classpath=classpath
           Sets the Class-Path attribute of all processed jar files to classpath.

           If not passed, then the CLASSPATH environment variable will be used in the given jar
           file do not have a Class-Path attribute.

       -m class, --main=class
           Sets the Main-Class attribute to class in all processed jar files.

       --javaopts=options
           Sets the Debian-Java-Parameters to options in all processed jar files. This attribute
           is used by jarwrapper to start java with extra options (e.g. to make more memory
           available).

       -j /path/to/java/home, --java-home=/path/to/java/home
           Sets the Debian-Java-Home attribute to /path/to/java/home in all processed jars. This
           attribute is used by jarwrapper to determine which JVM to use.

EXAMPLES

       An example debian/manifest file:

        # use the symlink so we do not have to update with the next upstream release.
        usr/share/java/my.jar:
         Class-Path: dep1.jar dep2.jar
         Main-Class: some.awesome.Class
        usr/share/java/dep2.jar:
         Class-Path: dep1.jar

SEE ALSO

       debhelper(7)

       This program is a part of javahelper and uses debhelper as backend. There are also
       tutorials in /usr/share/doc/javahelper.

AUTHOR

       Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

       Copyright 2010 by Niels Thykier

       This tool is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of
       GNU GPL 2.