Re: Can I freeze Java

[Deepak Bhole]

On Thu., Feb. 13, 2020, 15:12 ToddAndMargo via users, <
[e-mail]> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Fedora 30,
>
> A customer with one of those $$$$ custom programs is getting
> a pop up
>  https://ibb.co/gZ6TZsb
>
> telling him he is going to have to start paying for Java.
>
> The software vendor have an update to switch from Java
> to Open Java, but the vendor's QC is horrendous and
> the customer does not want to spend the money, which
> is considerable, and have things come out worse.  He
> has been down that path before.
>
> Is there a way to just freeze the Java version at
> what he has?
>
> And will it affect updating to Fedora 31 or future
> Fedora updates after that?

That popup only applies to Oracle JDK. If your customer is using it, they
must be using Oracle JDK. They can choose to disable updating it; that
action is unrelated to Fedora, which does not distribute Oracle JDK.

Deepak
> Many thanks,
> -T
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