On 10/24/2013 04:06 PM, Fernando Nasser wrote:
Also, will this change be ackported into the Java packages of RHEL_5 and RHEL-6?
Our products use only one spec file, we'll have to add lots of %if <osversion> in our spec files (and we have 300+ of them).
I doubt it will be wonted.
And personally I discourage from this step. Even if I will adapt specfiles in el6,el7 I doubt java
depending apckages will adapt in some meaningfull time or with real efffect.
However the change is transaprent, so backporting is possible.
I would calll it rhel7 feature :)
J.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stanislav Ochotnicky" <sochotnicky@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Jiri Vanek" <jvanek@xxxxxxxxxx>, devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: java-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2013 5:08:01 AM
Subject: Re: Headless JRE in Fedora
Quoting Jiri Vanek (2013-10-21 18:45:46)
Hi all!
With
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/java-1.7.0-openjdk-1.7.0.60-2.4.3.0.fc20
beeing stable,
would like to make this more visible:
The jdk in Fedora, being inspired in Debian, now supports headless
version. During the life of F20
(as in f21 all expected packages should be correctly headless)i
would like to recommend all java
packages maintainers, who do not need audio, or X or whatever (this
is still "on QA" on our side)
to swap theirs dependence to java-headless.
Alos, maintainers, please do not forget, that when you update your
package, also packages you are
depending on must become "just hedless dependent". Anyway - all
libraries should be jut java-headless :)
I would like to suggest especially wildFly and tomcat to try to
migrate asap, as this change was
designed for them :)
They can't. Several reasons:
* Packaging guidelines clearly state BR/R: java
* Maven packages have automatically generated requires on java
(or
java-devel)
To *really* make use of java-headless few things need to happen:
* guidelines have to be updated
* java-packages have to be changed to R: java-headless by default
* Maven packages are rebuilt
* packages not built with maven are migrated manually
* leaf applications make sure they have R: java
Btw - the update above is now somehow stuck - it not in testing,
nor in updates. Maybe the relengs
can help.
If you need to get in touch with rel-engs file a ticket[1], don't CC
their ML or
it's going to get lost
[1] https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/
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