[CentOS] stock openjdk vs. epel
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Thu Jun 4 05:41:05 UTC 2009
Rex Dieter wrote:
> Les Mikesell wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> EPEL doesn't replace rhel5 packages, true, and afaict, openjdk isn't in
> rhel5. Perhaps a centos addon/extra?
>
> -- Rex
That might have been true at one point in time but it isn't now. On a
stock RHEL5.x you can say 'yum install java-1.6.0-openjdk' and you get a
copy that appears to be built from what you find here:
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/5Server/en/os/SRPMS/
and pretty much the same in CentOS - if you don't have epel enabled.
--
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
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