[CentOS] stock openjdk vs. epel
Nicolas Thierry-Mieg
Nicolas.Thierry-Mieg at imag.fr
Thu Jun 4 17:45:55 UTC 2009
Les Mikesell wrote:
> Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote:
>> Les Mikesell wrote:
>>> Rex Dieter 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.
>>> I'm not sure it's really a bad thing. For example OpenNMS claims it
>>> needs b12 or later. But it is curious that apparently no one noticed or
>>> knows which is better. Has the history of Linux distro treatment of
>>> java (shipping one that doesn't work and being unfriendly to the one
>>> that does) completely destroyed any interest?
>> Many people might not have noticed because they use yum priorities or
>> apt pinning, as they should.
>
> Which one should get priority, and where is the appropriate place to
> learn that?
by default base+updates should get priority over anything else including
epel, don't you agree?
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