[CentOS] stock openjdk vs. epel

Thu Jun 4 17:33:00 UTC 2009
Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com>

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?

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   Les Mikesell
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