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.
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