IcedTea replaced with OpenJDK in rawhide - requires manual removal

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Sat, 2008-03-15 at 17:08 -0400, Will Woods wrote:
> 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,

Can I test this in F8?  Or will it be too disruptive?


> 
> -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.
> 
> 
> 
-- 
                Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Mathematical Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs