Am 29.03.2012 09:22, schrieb Wolfgang Bornath:
The page gives a link to a test routine at java.com where you can test
which version is installed on your machine. For my Mageia 1
installation with firefox the test shows "Your Java version: Version
6 Update 26" - which matches the installed package
(java-1.6.0-sun-plugin-1.6.0.26-0.2.mga1.nonfree).
Recommended is "version 6 update 31". But this is not available yet at Mageia.
- will there be a security related update for Mageia 1?
- if not, should we use the recommended newer version from java.com
(rpm packages available for 32 and 64 bit)
Afaik oracle has withdrawn the redistribution license for all newer java
versions.
But I'm not sure if only java >= 1.7 is concerned or java > 1.6.0.26.
If it's the latter, we should perhaps remove sun/oracle java completely
from the repos since we are not able to provide any security updates for it.
People can either use openjdk - which is working fine here - or download
sun/oracle java directly from oracle.
Oliver
