Ralph Angenendt 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?
Since 5.3 it is in RHEL 5 (although not the browser plugin). No idea if it only is in the server offering or also in the workstation set.
And it has a lower version number than the one in EPEL.
It sort-of reflects the old problem of packages being available in third party fedora or pre-fedora repos for ages, then having a different versions of that package appear in the fedora extra or core repos with no coordination with the original packager or repo that introduced it.