On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 12:46 AM, Dr Andrew C Aitchison <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
Does the one over at JPackage work for you? Because it is a "non-free" package, i.e. cooperating with Sun's old licensing, It's a .nosrc.rpm, but you could build it and test it. There's also a fiddly bit in the jpackage-utils-compat that keeps trying to yank in older, gcj based components, that I publshed a .spec to resolve for RHEL 5.x based operating systems. Would you like a copy? If so, that's relatively easy to update: I just no longer have release 5.x boxes to test such components on, but I've got the .spec files and the patches for anyone who wants them.
