On Tue, 3 Dec 2013, Mátyás Selmeci wrote:
> Hi,
> Redhat recently made a change to their java-1.7.0-openjdk package and the new
> package provides the 'java' virtual dependency and no longer provides the
> 'java7' virtual dependency.
> Their errata page: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2013-1611.html
> The removal of the java7 virtual dependency breaks several Open Science Grid
> packages that depend on it. We're still trying to come up with a workaround;
> can you tell us when that change would make it into SL 6 so we know how long
> we have?
This was released as part of RHEL 6.5 . It will not be "seen" in 6.0 -
6.4 until there is a security errata for java-1.7.0-openjdk .
If you want to test it is available in the "6rolling" tree.
http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6rolling/x86_64/os/Packages/
It will be released as SL 6.5 soon.
-Connie Sieh
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> Thanks,
> -Mat
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