[fedora-java] Headless JRE in Fedora
Fernando Nasser
fnasser at redhat.com
Thu Oct 24 14:06:27 UTC 2013
Also, will this change be ackported into the Java packages of RHEL_5 and RHEL-6?
Our products use only one spec file, we'll have to add lots of %if <osversion> in our spec files (and we have 300+ of them).
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Stanislav Ochotnicky" <sochotnicky at redhat.com>
> To: "Jiri Vanek" <jvanek at redhat.com>, devel at lists.fedoraproject.org
> Cc: java-devel at lists.fedoraproject.org
> Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2013 5:08:01 AM
> Subject: Re: [fedora-java] Headless JRE in Fedora
>
> Quoting Jiri Vanek (2013-10-21 18:45:46)
> > Hi all!
> >
> > With
> > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/java-1.7.0-openjdk-1.7.0.60-2.4.3.0.fc20
> > beeing stable,
> > would like to make this more visible:
> >
> > The jdk in Fedora, being inspired in Debian, now supports headless
> > version. During the life of F20
> > (as in f21 all expected packages should be correctly headless)i
> > would like to recommend all java
> > packages maintainers, who do not need audio, or X or whatever (this
> > is still "on QA" on our side)
> > to swap theirs dependence to java-headless.
> > Alos, maintainers, please do not forget, that when you update your
> > package, also packages you are
> > depending on must become "just hedless dependent". Anyway - all
> > libraries should be jut java-headless :)
> >
> > I would like to suggest especially wildFly and tomcat to try to
> > migrate asap, as this change was
> > designed for them :)
>
> They can't. Several reasons:
>
> * Packaging guidelines clearly state BR/R: java
> * Maven packages have automatically generated requires on java
> (or
> java-devel)
>
> To *really* make use of java-headless few things need to happen:
> * guidelines have to be updated
> * java-packages have to be changed to R: java-headless by default
> * Maven packages are rebuilt
> * packages not built with maven are migrated manually
> * leaf applications make sure they have R: java
>
> > Btw - the update above is now somehow stuck - it not in testing,
> > nor in updates. Maybe the relengs
> > can help.
>
> If you need to get in touch with rel-engs file a ticket[1], don't CC
> their ML or
> it's going to get lost
>
> [1] https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/
>
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