Hi hansel!

 On 2015.01.30 at 14:55:52 -0500, hansel wrote next:

> Appreciate the feedback. However, my searching (14 registered repositories,
> RHEL and SL documents, RHEL/SL 6 releases of java 1.8 and security updates)
> finds no SL 7 supported rpm for java 1.8.
> 
> So, does RHEL/SL 6 java 1.8 release work on SL 7 or has it been packaged for
> RHEL/SL 7? If for 7, it seems not to be in an SL or RHEL repository?

You can't use RHEL's java 1.8 because they don't provide src.rpms for
rebuilding IIRC (they can't by license; they could provide nosrc.rpm but
I guess they don't see a point).

But you can just rebuild jpackage-provided src.rpm (tweaked for SL6) on
SL7 system, I don't think there would be any problems. JPackage does
proper java packages, at least.

You can get srpm here, for example:
http://ftp.riken.jp/Linux/cern/slc6X/x86_64/updates/SRPMS/java-1.8.0-oracle-1.8.0.25-3.0.slc6.src.rpm

update java tarball to latest version from oracle and rebuild it and
here you go.


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Vladimir