Re: Safe to install Oracle Java 1.8?

2015-01-31 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 12:25 PM, Denice wrote: > On Sat, 31 Jan 2015, Taylor Braun-Jones wrote: > >> On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 2:55 PM, hansel wrote: >> Appreciate the feedback. However, my searching (14 registered >> repositories, RHEL and SL documents, RHEL/SL 6 releases of java >>

Re: Safe to install Oracle Java 1.8?

2015-01-31 Thread Denice
On Sat, 31 Jan 2015, Taylor Braun-Jones wrote: On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 2:55 PM, hansel 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

Re: Safe to install Oracle Java 1.8?

2015-01-31 Thread Taylor Braun-Jones
On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 2:55 PM, hansel 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 pa

Re: Safe to install Oracle Java 1.8?

2015-01-31 Thread Jaroslaw Polok
Hi all, >> source code, it just bundles up the binaries with *yet another* >> wrapper. > > Of course. But that's expected, no other version could possibly exists > if we are talking about Oracle JDK. > Yes, it is the old jpackage wrapper (modified), and that wrapper actually packages these in a

Re: Safe to install Oracle Java 1.8?

2015-01-31 Thread Vladimir Mosgalin
Hi Nico Kadel-Garcia! On 2015.01.31 at 08:10:39 -0500, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote next: > > 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 > > Near as I can tell, JPackage has been dead for about five ye

Re: Safe to install Oracle Java 1.8?

2015-01-31 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 6:55 AM, Vladimir Mosgalin wrote: > 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 n

Re: Safe to install Oracle Java 1.8?

2015-01-31 Thread Vladimir Mosgalin
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