Hello,
I was asked to delay pushing this out until next week, due to several 
universities having this week off for the holidays.

Troy

Troy Dawson wrote:
> Hello,
> java has had several security issues that need to be addressed.  The problem is
> that the j2sdk-1.4.2 in SL3 and SL4 has several irritating issues.  The worst
> issue is that it will uninstall newer versions of java.
> So, the goal has been to update the java in SL3 and SL4 to jdk 1.5.0 without
> hurting things too much.
> I think I've gotten it sorted out with some modified java-compat rpm's.
> I have done some testing and found that things work the way that I'm expecting,
> mainly that the j2sdk-1.4.2 is removed and jdk-1.5.0 is added and in place.
> But I'd like some testers.
> If nobody has any complaints, I want to push this out in the errata on wed 2
> Jan. 2008.
> 
> To Test SL3
> -------
>     yum -c
> ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/30rolling/testing/yum.conf
> update j\*
> 
> Before:
>    java-1.4.2-sun-compat-1.4.2.13-1jpp.i586
>    j2sdk-1.4.2_13-fcs.i586
> After:
>    java-1.4.2-sun-compat-1.4.2.90-1jpp.i586
>    java-1.5.0-sun-compat-1.5.0.14-1.sl.jpp.noarch
>    jdk-1.5.0_14-fcs.i586
> 
> 
> To Test SL4
> -------
>     yum --enablerepo=sl-testing update j\*
> 
> Before:
>    java-1.4.2-sun-compat-1.4.2.13-1jpp.i586
>    j2sdk-1.4.2_13-fcs.i586
> After:
>    java-1.4.2-sun-compat-1.4.2.90-1jpp.i586
>    java-1.5.0-sun-compat-1.5.0.14-1.sl4.jpp.noarch
>    jdk-1.5.0_14-fcs.i586
> 
> 
> Thanks
> Troy


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