Starting with rhel 5.2, Redhat provides sun java in the Supplementary channel. Are there any plans to release sun-java in the centos extra or plus repo ?
Would be nice to keep sun java up to date using yum.
Thnx,
Stephan
On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 9:28 AM, Stephan van Hienen ddx@a2000.nu wrote:
Starting with rhel 5.2, Redhat provides sun java in the Supplementary channel. Are there any plans to release sun-java in the centos extra or plus repo ?
Would be nice to keep sun java up to date using yum.
I believe those versions are not redistributable due to licenses that IBM, BEA, SUN add to their binaries. So CentOS could not redistribute those RPMS.
Am Samstag, den 09.08.2008, 14:27 -0600 schrieb Stephen John Smoogen:
I believe those versions are not redistributable due to licenses that IBM, BEA, SUN add to their binaries. So CentOS could not redistribute those RPMS.
But maybe CentOS doesn't need to redistribute those RPMS for two reasons: 1) CentOS testing already has IcedTea 6 RPMS 2) Somewhere I've read that Red Hat plans to integrate IcedTea RPMS into 5.3
Regards,
Heiko Adams wrote:
But maybe CentOS doesn't need to redistribute those RPMS for two reasons:
- CentOS testing already has IcedTea 6 RPMS
- Somewhere I've read that Red Hat plans to integrate IcedTea RPMS into
5.3
I dunno any enterprise Java developers who are using OpenJDK for any production work yet. sure, people are watching it to see how it comes out, but I suspect it will be a couple years yet before its considered production grade at places like where I work.
John R Pierce wrote:
Heiko Adams wrote:
But maybe CentOS doesn't need to redistribute those RPMS for two reasons:
- CentOS testing already has IcedTea 6 RPMS
- Somewhere I've read that Red Hat plans to integrate IcedTea RPMS into
5.3
agreed
I dunno any enterprise Java developers who are using OpenJDK for any production work yet. sure, people are watching it to see how it comes out, but I suspect it will be a couple years yet before its considered production grade at places like where I work.
Well ... that still does not make older versions of sun java redistributable :D
if/when upstream rolls java into RHEL in a way that is redistributable, we will build it also for CentOS.
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