The jdk's are now signed by me.  I have tested them on both SL4 and SL5 32 bit 
and 64 bit, and they are installing correctly.  It looks like the signature 
didn't break them this time.  Please let me know if anyone has any problems 
with these signed jdk's.

Thanks
Troy

p.s. They are the exact same names, only signed.  So you'll have to test them 
on a machine that hasn't already done testing, or remove what you have and 
reinstall.


Troy J Dawson wrote:
> Hello,
> We are going to be updating the sun java in SL4 and SL5 to version 1.6.0.
> Enough labs and experiments are using version 1.6.0 that the tipping point has
> been reached and it's time for us to update.
> We would like to update on December 2, 2008.
> That sounds like a short time, but all the reports we have heard have said that
> if code runs on 1.5, then it will run on 1.6.  We have even heard that java
> code that is recompiled on 1.6 and then run on 1.6 can be much faster, up to
> 20% faster depending on the code.
> We would like everyone who has java code that might be affected to test their
> code.  We are trying to get this done before the holiday season so that it
> doesn't impart people too much during the holidays.
> 
> To test
> 
> SL4
> -------
>        yum --enablerepo=sl-testing update jdk java\*
> 
> or you can download rpm's by hand at
> 
> http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/40rolling/testing/i386/RPMS/java/
> http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/40rolling/testing/x86_64/RPMS/java/
> jdk-1.6.0_10-fcs.i586.rpm
> java-1.6.0-sun-compat-1.6.0.10-3.sl4.jpp.i586.rpm
> java-1.5.0-sun-compat-1.5.0.90-2.sl.jpp.noarch.rpm
> 
> SL5
> -------
>        yum --enablerepo=sl-testing update jdk java\*
> 
> or you can download rpm's by hand at
> 
> http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/5rolling/testing/i386/java/
> http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/5rolling/testing/x86_64/java/
> jdk-1.6.0_10-fcs.i586.rpm
> jdk-1.6.0_10-fcs.x86_64.rpm
> java-1.6.0-sun-compat-1.6.0.10-3.sl5.jpp.i586.rpm
> java-1.6.0-sun-compat-1.6.0.10-3.sl5.jpp.x86_64.rpm
> java-1.5.0-sun-compat-1.5.0.90-2.sl.jpp.noarch.rpm
> 
> SL5 x86_64 users might have to install the i586 packages separately.
>    yum --enablerepo=sl-testing install java-1.6.0-sun-compat.i586.rpm
> 
> Thanks
> Troy
> p.s. We do know that it is possible for there to be more than one version of
> sun's java installed on your machine.  But there can only be one official
> version in the distribution.
> p.p.s. We also know that openjdk is going to be in SL 5.3.  But currently it
> does not have the browser plugin and a couple other pieces that many people
> need.  That can be a different discussion.
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