[CentOS] stock openjdk vs. epel

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Thu Jun 4 16:19:40 UTC 2009


Les Mikesell wrote:

> 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

OK, found it, I'll go known some skulls @ epel.

-- Rex




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