[fedora-java] Re: Replacing FC4 Free Java with SUN's Java

[Andrew Haley]

David Walluck writes:
 > Andrew Overholt <overholt at redhat.com> wrote:
 > 
 > > Sun's RPM is explicitly NOT recommended.  See the FC4 release notes and
 > 
 > I went and read the release notes:
 > 
 > `` Fedora Core 4 users are advised not to use the Java RPM provided by Sun. It
 > contains Provides that conflict with names used in packages provided as 
 > part of
 > Fedora Core 4. Because of this, Sun Java might disappear from an installed
 > system during package upgrade operations.''
 > 
 > But this shouldn't be the case unless something is different from 
 > jpackage.org,
 > where this package is expected to be able to be parallel installed along with
 > other sdk's.

It is different from jpackage.org.  That's why we recommend the
jpackage.org RPM, not the one from Sun.

Andrew.