On 4/10/06, Anthony Green <green % redhat.com> wrote: > On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 11:47 -0700, Dan Thurman wrote: > > What's the point of using JPackages if I cannot use it to update > > Java components I need and want? > > I don't know. We don't recommend using the JPackages repos directly. This is of some concern to me also. We mostly use RHEL (FC for a little testing) so it won't trickle down until RHEL5, but my understanding was that Red Hat was adopting JPackage as the model for Java packages in Fedora Core and Red Hat Enterprise. The official FC5 rpms even have "jpp" in their names, for example ant-1.6.5-1jpp_7fc.i386.rpm . Now, I understand that the "fc" also means that gjc-specific stuff is in the rpm, but one advantage of JPackage is that you can easily switch JVMs. Are you saying that with Red Hat is going to maintain a set of separate packages and if you ever want any JPackages beyond that set you shouldn't be using RHEL or Fedora Core? Dan: I don't know if you saw my earlier email, but you probably just need to build your own stax-bea since it's non-free.
