On Sat, 31 Jan 2015, Taylor Braun-Jones wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 2:55 PM, hansel <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>       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.
> 
> 
> I just downloaded the jdk-8u31-linux-x64.rpm package from the Oracle
> website:
> 
> http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk8-downloads-2133
> 151.html

An instructive exercise is to compare the number of lines in the
post-install portion of an RPM from old UNIX companies (like Sun or
Oracle):

$ rpm -qp jdk-8u31-linux-x64.rpm --scripts |wc -l
2704

and compare that to RPM scriptlets from folk with strong Linux roots,
like the RPM that Jaroslaw Polok was talking about ..

$ for i in  java-1.8.0-oracle-* ; do echo -n "$i: " ; rpm -qp $i --scripts 2>/dev/null |wc -l; done
java-1.8.0-oracle-1.8.0.25-3.0.el6.x86_64.rpm: 6
java-1.8.0-oracle-devel-1.8.0.25-3.0.el6.x86_64.rpm: 92
java-1.8.0-oracle-headless-1.8.0.25-3.0.el6.x86_64.rpm: 61
java-1.8.0-oracle-javafx-1.8.0.25-3.0.el6.x86_64.rpm: 0
java-1.8.0-oracle-plugin-1.8.0.25-3.0.el6.x86_64.rpm: 38
java-1.8.0-oracle-src-1.8.0.25-3.0.el6.x86_64.rpm: 0

You will get some idea why some of us avoid the Oracle-provided package
like the plague.

cheers, etc.
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