On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 2:06 PM, Rex Dieter rdieter@math.unl.edu wrote:
Rex Dieter wrote:
OK, found it, I'll go knock some skulls @ epel.
Bug filed, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=504189
folks poked, hopefully will see a resolution soonish.
-- Rex
Still no java browser plugin for Centos? I've been reading the web all night on this, getting angry. I can't find any explanation about why EPEL did have a working browser plugin, but then Centos introduced versions of those same packages that had the plugin removed. Not to mention the fact that Centos keeps the older version (b09) of java-1.6.0, and yet yum seems to think it is a newer version.
So far, the only adequate approach I've found is to install the java-1.6.0-openjdk packages that used to be in EPEL repositories. Every yum update fails after that because yum tries to install the versions from Centos updates, but those updates fail because they don't satisfy the plugin requirement. That's not great because there are some security fixes that come along with the Centos version.
It just seems silly to leave it this way. Are the experts just sick of dealing with each other?
I've been looking at the SRPM files for the competing java-1.6.0-openjdk packages from Centos and EPEL trying to figure how to make a plugin package in the EPEL style but from the java base in Centos.
Well, I'm sorry if these words are too critical. I appreciate the efforts everyone has been making on this.
pj