Re: 13.37 jre & openssl security fixes

2012/1/23 Gil Andre <[email protected]>:
>> jre-6u25 in 13.37:
>> ChangeLog for 6u26:
>> http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/6u26releasenotes-401875.html
>
> This is as far as I understand it, your guess is as good as mine...
>
> Oracle has rescinded Sun's community licensing, which means Oracle JRE
> cannot be included in Slackware (or any other Linux for that matter).
>
> As I understand it, efforts are underway to port OpenJDK to replace
> Oracle's JRE.
>
> See this, for instance:
>
> http://alien.slackbook.org/blog/libreoffice-3-4-5-released-openjdk-package-update/

I think that OpenJDK is not an option for the version 6 of Java. It
could work for a lot of applications, but not all, and have some
problems with some java application servers. Upgrading to OpenJDK 7
is, in my opinion, not a good idea for 13.37. Maybe for the next
Slackware version.

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/java-se-archive-license-1382604.html
As I understand, u26 is still distributable (-current has u27), and
the last 6u is 30 online.

>
>> Openssl-0.9.8r in 13.37
>> ChangeLog for next:
>> http://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20120104.txt
>
> Good question - I don't know about this one.
>
> Maybe Robby Workman or some other Slackware hacker (they are reading this
> list) can tell us more about it?

I hope ;)

++ fredg
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