On Thu, 9 Jun 2011, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 12:13 PM, Dr Andrew C Aitchison
<[email protected]> wrote:
Sorry to be a pain, but should I expect Java 6u26 (Sun/Oracle)
updates for java-1.6.0-sun-compat and jdk or do I now need to
download direct from Oracle ?
These would replace
java-1.6.0-sun-compat1.6.0.24-3.sl5.jpp.i586.rpm
jdk1.6.0_24-fcs.i586.rpm
and 64bit equivalents.
I used to update these over at JPackage. I gave up, on the grounds
that RHEL 6 and its rebuilds rely on OpenJDK, Red Hat has gotten
squarely behind OpenJDK, and Oracle *bought Sun* and is tring to
itself support OpenJDK. So there's very little point to it anymore in
the development or stable environment world.
Thanks.
Unfortunately that doesn't really address the point I was trying to make.
Until about SL5.5, SL (but not RHEL) included an rpm which worked
in browsers. I know Troy has to fiddle a bit to sign the i386 package
and could not sign the x86_64, but it was very convenient for at
least this user.
What I'm trying to ask is; will SL5 continue to include an rpm
which provides java for browsers ?
I don't remember Troy or anyone else saying one way or the other.
Thanks again.
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Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge
[email protected] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna
