[Fwd: IcedTea replaced with OpenJDK in rawhide - requires manual removal]

[John Poelstra]

Worth a release note?  I'm behind on f-docs-list so forgive me if you've 
already covered this.

John

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: IcedTea replaced with OpenJDK in rawhide - requires manual removal
Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2008 17:08:05 -0400
From: Will Woods <wwoods at redhat.com>
Reply-To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases 
<fedora-test-list at redhat.com>
To: fedora-test-list at redhat.com

Hello rawhiders!

As of March 13, java-1.7.0-icedtea has been removed from Rawhide and
replaced with java-1.6.0-openjdk. This version should be better
compatible with upstream java.

Unfortunately, the package changeover doesn't happen by default for
people who already have IcedTea installed[1]. You can do this manually.
In most cases you'll just need to do:

yum erase java-1.7.0-icedtea{,-plugin}
yum install java-1.6.0-openjdk{,-plugin}

Hope that helps, and happy testing,

-w

[1] Normally this is handled by increasing the Epoch (if the packages
have the same name) or adding an Obsoletes: (if they don't).
In this case, the packages have different names (technically
"java-1.7.0-icedtea" is the name of the package, not "java") and we
don't really want to force the OpenJDK to replace IcedTea in *all* cases
where it's installed on someone's system.


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