>Knute Johnson wrote: >>> I'd like to be wrong about this, but it looks like jpackage.org is no >>> longer providing current fedora-compatible packages, or at least not >>> documenting them as such, and unlike some of the other packages that >>> have been incorporated directly into the fedora repository, >>> java-sun-compat is clearly missing. I'm not running anything newer than >>> FC6 myself (I was waiting for jpackage.org to catch up...) so maybe I've >>> overlooked something. >> >> I can tell you that they work fine with F7 and F8 and it works with >> F8 x86_64 too. >> >> I think it is the simplest route to get Sun's Java up on Fedora. I >> haven't found any problems with it. Of course tomorrw's change could >> end all of that in a heartbeat :-). > >Is it just accidental that the old version still works? Do you trust >the yum repository now that the fedora version has probably introduced >conflicts or do you have to locate and manually download individual >files and hope they work? Is this progress? I never got the repo to work and that was back on FC4. I just download the RPM and install it. I don't know if it is supposed to or just does. I don't really know why it wouldn't though. Progress? Probably not :-). -- Knute Johnson Molon Labe...
