Hello,
This is just an advance warning that the jdk updates that have been in testing
will be going out tomorrow, 30 July 2008
Why do you need an advanced warning?
Two reasons.
1 - The jdk rpm's from sun are not signed. I could give you the whole
shakedown on the attempts at signing these so that other things don't break,
but to keep things short, they aren't signed. So if you have GPG checking
turned on, these are going to fail.
2 - Some people have multiple versions of jdk installed. This will either
cause this update to fail, or if this update is the newest, it may install
itself and remove all the rest. This may or may not be what you want.
If there is a reason that you want to update these by hand, the rpm's are
currently at these locations.
SL4
http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/40rolling/testing/i386/RPMS/java
http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/40rolling/testing/x86_64/RPMS/java/
http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/40rolling/testing/x86_64/RPMS/java/jdk-1.5.0_16-fcs.i586.rpm
http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/40rolling/testing/x86_64/RPMS/java/java-1.5.0-sun-compat-1.5.0.16-1.1.sl.jpp.noarch.rpm
SL5
http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/5rolling/testing/i386/java/
http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/5rolling/testing/x86_64/java/
http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/5rolling/testing/x86_64/java/java-1.5.0-sun-compat-1.5.0.16-1.1.sl5.jpp.noarch.rpm
http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/5rolling/testing/x86_64/java/jdk-1.5.0_16-fcs.i586.rpm
http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/5rolling/testing/x86_64/java/jdk-1.5.0_16-fcs.x86_64.rpm
If you want to update them via yum right now you can do the follwoing
yum --enablerepo=sl-testing update java\*
Thanks for all those who have tested these.
Troy Dawson
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Fermilab ComputingDivision/LCSI/CSI DSS Group
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