Re: Java 1.6.0_23
Nico Kadel-Garcia <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.jpackage.general |
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On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 5:05 AM, Boris Folgmann <[email protected]> wrote: > Nico Kadel-Garcia schrieb/wrote: >> >> I've been behind on this, and need to renew my old effort to get on >> the CVS list for this package. RHEL 6, fortunately, has switched to >> openjdk. This saves a lot of packaging trouble. > > I need Java also for RHEL 4. One of your last changes concerning the path to > mkfontdir did break the compatibility for RHEL 4. > > To keep it simple I've set a symlink > > $ ll /usr/bin/mkfontdir > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 4. Feb 08:20 /usr/bin/mkfontdir -> > ../X11R6/bin/mkfontdir > > and then installed with rpm -U --nodeps because xorg-x11-font-utils-7.1-2 > provides mkfontdir on RHEL 5 but not on 4. In fact no package provides it on > RHEL 4. > > I hate installing with --nodeps but for me it was the most simple solution > and it works. > > cu, > boris Oh. Well, drat. The ducking and weaving X components in the migration from RHEL 3 to RHEL 4 to RHEL 5 have caused other, similar incompatibility issues with tools such as OpenSSH built on one release and migrated to another. (This happened to me last year.) Is it worth pursuing RHEL 4/CentOS 4 compatibility with RHEL 6 already out?