On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 14:04 -0600, Weiqi Gao wrote: > Has anyone noticed the implicit contradiction between "you should use > the JDK from the JPackage repo" and "you should not use the JPackage > repo"? I tried to consistently use the specific terms "application software" versus "runtime environment" to minimize this confusion. An additional explicit note might be a good idea: "Please note that despite utilizing the JPackage installation guidelines, several of the Java application software packages shipped with Fedora have been slightly modified from those provided by JPackage, in order to work out of the box with the included compiler and runtime environment. Additionally, the Fedora packages also include pre-compiled fast and optimized native binary code alongside the original Java bytecode JAR files. As a result, if you modify your Yum configuration and update to application software packages shipped directly through the JPackage Yum repository, you will end up with an unpredictable mix of bytecode and binary software. So although Fedora recommends the use of JPackage for installing alternate Java Runtime Environments, JPackage is not necessarily recommended for the Java application software packages which use that runtime. Users wishing to maintain a supported software platform, by using the Free Java Runtime Environment shipped with Fedora, are advised to only update their systems with Java application software packages provided through the Fedora and Fedora Extras Yum repositories, and not directly through JPackage unless they also plan to switch to one of their alternate/proprietary Java runtimes. The Fedora provided application software packages should continue to work with other Java Runtime Environments which follow JPackage guidelines, but as stated above, there is a good chance unmodified JPackage applications will not work with the default Runtime Environment shipped with Fedora." -- Chris Hubick mailto:chris@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.hubick.com/
