java again really

Knute Johnson knute at frazmtn.com
Sat Jan 5 18:24:43 UTC 2008


>I'd like to be wrong about this, but it looks like jpackage.org is no 
>longer providing current fedora-compatible packages, or at least not 
>documenting them as such, and unlike some of the other packages that 
>have been incorporated directly into the fedora repository, 
>java-sun-compat is clearly missing.  I'm not running anything newer than 
>FC6 myself (I was waiting for jpackage.org to catch up...) so maybe I've 
>overlooked something.

I can tell you that they work fine with F7 and F8 and it works  with 
F8 x86_64 too.

I think it is the simplest route to get Sun's Java up on Fedora.  I 
haven't found any problems with it.  Of course tomorrw's change could 
end all of that in a heartbeat :-).

-- 
Knute Johnson
Molon Labe...





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