Les Mikesell wrote:
Nicolas Thierry-Mieg 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?
-- Rex
That might have been true at one point in time but it isn't now. On a
stock RHEL5.x you can say 'yum install java-1.6.0-openjdk' and you get a
OK, found it, I'll go known some skulls @ epel.
I'm not sure it's really a bad thing. For example OpenNMS claims it
needs b12 or later. But it is curious that apparently no one noticed or
knows which is better. Has the history of Linux distro treatment of
java (shipping one that doesn't work and being unfriendly to the one
that does) completely destroyed any interest?
Many people might not have noticed because they use yum priorities or
apt pinning, as they should.
Which one should get priority, and where is the appropriate place to
learn that?
by default base+updates should get priority over anything else including
epel, don't you agree?
Not necessarily. I don't see any inherent reason that I would want
openjdk-b09 over b12 and I'd expect the reverse since b12 fixes known
bugs. But I would want to know that I'm not the first person to try to
run it, which is why I raised the question.
I think priorities set globally should be for base and updates to be
highest. In this case there is a particular rpm that the upstream vendor
has not yet updated to the later release. Thus those that cannot wait
can use yum exclude and thus move to another repo - in this case epel to
get a later release. But as always if it breaks you get to keep the
pieces.....
Works for me.
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