IcedTea8

Jacek Konieczny jajcus at jajcus.net
Mon Jul 27 08:43:32 CEST 2015


On 2015-07-27 08:35, Elan Ruusamäe wrote:
> On 27.07.2015 09:11, Jacek Konieczny wrote:
>> And probably it might be a better idea to build OpenJDK directly
>> instead of using IcedTea8. Current OpenJDK should be buildable on its
>> own, though probably without x32 support.
>
> how would pld name the package?
>
> a) openjdk.spec?
> b) openjdk8.spec?

b) openjdk8.spec

That works well in any intermediate stages and worked well for sun-java* 
and icedtea*.

> in Fedora it's like this:
>
> [~/fc] ➔ cat java-1.7.0-icedtea/dead.package; echo
> java-1.7.0-icedtea was replaced by java-1.6.0-openjdk.

That is clearly different from our current scheme, which works quite 
well for us.

Jacek


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