Re: What is the right Java upgrade path for RHEL 5 users?

On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 7:47 AM, Will Tatam <[email protected]> wrote:
>  On 24/02/11 13:08, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 12:55 AM, David Walluck<[email protected]>  wrote:
>>
>> This cannot be completely true. I just checked, and a lot of the
>> Jpackage 6.0 SRPM's, for example, fail miserably to install on RHEL 5
>> or CentOS 5 because they were built with too recent a version of RPM
>> and have the MD5sum incompatibility with the older RPM software on
>> RHEL 5 and CentOS 5. I have to assume that they were built either on
>> RHEL 6 or a recent Fedora, or in a "mock" chroot cage for RHEL 6 or
>> Fedora.
>>
> This was true, but I rebuilt many packages to resolve this issue. Some of
> the effected packages did not correctly rebuilt after the mock downgrade so
> might need manual work. If you tell me which your trying to use and still
> having issues with, we can look to rebuilt the effected package

I'll publish a list. Oracle just published their 6_24 update to Java,
and after a bit of tesint with it I've got to get some sleep
tonight!!!

I'm glad you've gone for maximum compatibility, thank you for that.

>>> fact that the Oracle JDK is non-free and not included in CentOS makes it
>>> more difficult to use vs. simply using the provided openjdk.
>>
>> Yeah, I can see that as sensible for RHEL 6. Unfortunately, it's not
>> very workable for RHEL 5.
>
> OpenJDK was added to RHEL/CentOS as part of the updates, 5.4 maybe ?

Have you or others found OpenJDK to be fully compatible with software
developed by others using Sun or Oracle published JDK's, or the Sun
JRE's so common on Windows machines? I'm more of a systems integrator
than a Java programmer, so I really don't know.

I used to be able to ask my wife, but she got out of Java based
genetic analysis programming. Now she's a book conservator!!!!