Re: Question regarding jpp6 and jpp5
Marcin Rzeźnicki <[email protected]>
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On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 12:14 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia <[email protected]> wrote: > 2010/3/16 Marcin Rzeźnicki <[email protected]>: >> Hi all, >> After installing jpp6 release package on my Fedora-box I noticed that >> sometimes more recent versions of libraries can be found in jpp5 >> repository. So I thought that i should add jpp5 along jpp6 to have >> access to all libraries I care for. Unfortunately, jpp6 updates jpp5, >> so generally yum didn't think well of my idea. So I started to search >> for hints through jpackage website to find what's the deal with jpp5/6 >> (apart from different java targets) and found none. Hence my question >> here. What is the relation between jpp6 and jpp5 with regard to >> libraries patches updates etc. ? Thank you very much in advance. > > One thing I've noticed is that for recent Fedora, a lot of JPP6 is > unneeded. For example, the Sun JDK's became unnecessary when Fedora > started including openjdk of a recent enough version. And JPP6 is > painful in the extreme to backport to RHEL, even for RHEL 5. Even the > SRPM's are incompatible due to the changes in RPM formats. > _______________________________________________ This may be, but what does it mean from the perspective of ordinary user, like me? Should I abandon JPP6 in favor of Jpp5 or is it advisable to use them together? -- Greetings Marcin Rzeźnicki _______________________________________________ JPackage-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://www.zarb.org/mailman/listinfo/jpackage-discuss