Re: centos] java-1.4.2-sun-compat

[herrold at owlriver.com (R P Herrold)]

On Mon, 23 May 2005, John Newbigin wrote:

> I use the JPackage provided java-1.4.2-sun-compat but it has recently 
> switched arch from noarch to i586.  Yum understandably refuses to upgrade 
> this package.
>
> Should I bother with yum or just upgrade it manually?

the java packagings which rely on this include IBM's -- they 
(IBM) ship a wide array of x86 arch variants,a nd I am 
surprised that Jpackage had it as noarch in the first place.

I would manually do the upgrade

- R