Re: stock openjdk vs. epel

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Rex Dieter wrote:
> Les Mikesell wrote:
> 
> > If you have the epel repo installed and enabled during a yum update, you
> > get java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-1.0.b12.el5.2 instead of the stock .b09
> > version.  Is this intentional and desirable?  I thought epel generally
> > did not replace stock components with newer versions.
> 
> EPEL doesn't replace rhel5 packages, true, and afaict,  openjdk isn't in 
> rhel5.  Perhaps a centos addon/extra?

Since 5.3 it is in RHEL 5 (although not the browser plugin). No idea if
it only is in the server offering or also in the workstation set.

And it has a lower version number than the one in EPEL.

Ralph

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