On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Phil Schaffner wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 17:00 +0900, Lee w wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I'm a newbie to centos and having trouble upgrading java's jdk1.4 to jdk1.5.
> > I assume I have to get the jdk from jpackage, but I'm having trouble
> > locating it, let alone finding any instructions on how to upgrade. Much
> > appreciated if anyone can help. Thanks!
>
> Can find them in Dag Wieers' repo...
>
> j2re-1.4.2-11.2.el4.rf.i586.rpm mozilla-j2re-1.4.2-11.2.el4.rf.i586.rpm
>
> Here are the config files:
>
> [prs@wx1 ~]$ cat /etc/yum.repos.d/dag.repo
> [dag]
> name=Dag RPM Repository for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
> baseurl=http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el$releasever/en/$basearch/dag/
> enabled=0
> gpgcheck=1
> [dag_i386]
> name=Dag RPM Repository for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
> baseurl=http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el$releasever/en/i386/dag/
> enabled=0
> gpgcheck=1
>
> Change "enabled=0" to "enabled=1" if you don't want to have to use
> "--enablerepo=dag" on yum commands, and be sure to import the GPG key:
>
> rpm --import http://dag.wieers.com/packages/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt
>
> Or for smart...
> [prs@wx1 ~]$ cat /etc/smart/channels/dag.channel
> ### URL: http://dag.wieers.com/apt/
> [dag]
> name = RPMforge.net: Dag RPM Repository for (x86_64)
> baseurl = http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el4/en/x86_64/dag
> type = rpm-md
> priority = 10
> [prs@wx1 ~]$ cat /etc/smart/channels/dag_i386.channel
> ### URL: http://dag.wieers.com/apt/
> [dag_i386]
> name = RPMforge.net: Dag RPM Repository for (i386)
> baseurl = http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el4/en/i386/dag
> type = rpm-md
> priority = 10
>
> The weirdness with the [dag_i386] stuff is to be able to find i386
> packages on my x86_64 arch. On a 32-bit machine the 1st entries are
> sufficient.
My x86_64 repository used to be a merge of i386 and x86_64. Sadly Yum
cannot handle this. (ie. it installs both archs) See Yum bugzilla for the
report.
After a bunch of mails from confused Yum users I decided to keep them
seperated.
Kind regards,
-- dag wieers, dag@xxxxxxxxxx, http://dag.wieers.com/ --
[all I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power]
