Les Mikesell wrote: > 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? by default base+updates should get priority over anything else including epel, don't you agree?