IcedTea replaced with OpenJDK in rawhide - requires manual removal
Matthew Saltzman
mjs at clemson.edu
Mon Mar 17 18:22:22 UTC 2008
On Sat, 2008-03-15 at 17:08 -0400, Will Woods wrote:
> Hello rawhiders!
>
> As of March 13, java-1.7.0-icedtea has been removed from Rawhide and
> replaced with java-1.6.0-openjdk. This version should be better
> compatible with upstream java.
>
> Unfortunately, the package changeover doesn't happen by default for
> people who already have IcedTea installed[1]. You can do this manually.
> In most cases you'll just need to do:
>
> yum erase java-1.7.0-icedtea{,-plugin}
> yum install java-1.6.0-openjdk{,-plugin}
>
> Hope that helps, and happy testing,
Can I test this in F8? Or will it be too disruptive?
>
> -w
>
> [1] Normally this is handled by increasing the Epoch (if the packages
> have the same name) or adding an Obsoletes: (if they don't).
> In this case, the packages have different names (technically
> "java-1.7.0-icedtea" is the name of the package, not "java") and we
> don't really want to force the OpenJDK to replace IcedTea in *all* cases
> where it's installed on someone's system.
>
>
>
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Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Mathematical Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
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