[CentOS] stock openjdk vs. epel

Scott Silva ssilva at sgvwater.com
Mon Jun 1 17:31:04 UTC 2009


on 6-1-2009 9:43 AM Les Mikesell spake the following:
> If you have the epel repo installed and enabled during a yum update, you 
> get java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-1.0.b12.el5.2 instead of the stock .b09 
> version.  Is this intentional and desirable?  I thought epel generally 
> did not replace stock components with newer versions.
> 
Any third party repo has the potential to replace base files. That is why the
priorities and the protectbase plugins were written.

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