Hi,
my apologies if this isn’t the right forum for this post. Please let me know if it’s wrong.
I have the OS 12.3 & have the Java Package repositories defined, as listed here: Package repositories - openSUSE
Recently Yast has started complaining about the repository, and when I visit the sites, only the Factory version exists.
Am I safe using the Factory repository in place of the 12.3 version?
Have these repositories moved elsewhere?
???
Thanks
David
On 2013-11-01 12:56, jetojedno wrote:
> Am I safe using the Factory repository in place of the 12.3 version?
No, certainly not.
> Have these repositories moved elsewhere?
> ???
Or disappeared. That wiki page is wrong.
Use the opensuse search package facility to find out if the packages are
elsewhere.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.3 x86_64 “Dartmouth” at Telcontar)
Java repo’s have been removed and you do not mix factory repo’s with openSUSE 12.3. Please read the following page link:
SDB:Installing Java - openSUSE
Thank You,
What’s happened to openjdk? Is Oracle making new claims on it?
???
OpenJDK is in the standard OSS/OSS-update repos and Factory. The devel project is Java:openjdk6:Factory btw.
openjdk is still there and you get it by default. Oracle Java was a manual add and can not be a openSUSE repo now.
Thank You,
Oracle Java was always manual AFAIK. I’m not clear on what these Java repositories are, or were.
No, Sun’s Java (which is Oracle Java now after Oracle bought up Sun) was included in the standard distro years ago and even installed by default. (OpenJDK doesn’t exist that long, only since 2007)
As to what was in those Java:packages repos I have no idea. But that repo for Factory (see the first post) doesn’t contain a Java VM, just additional packages.
And OpenJDK is in the Java:openjdk6:Factory repo as already mentioned.
On 2013-11-01 22:36, wolfi323 wrote:
>
> chief_sealth;2595025 Wrote:
>> Oracle Java was always manual AFAIK. I’m not clear on what these Java
>> repositories are, or were.
> No, Sun’s Java (which is Oracle Java now after Oracle bought up Sun)
> was included in the standard distro years ago and even installed by
> default.
Correct. Versions after certain release simply could not be hosted by
any one because Oracle changed the redistribution license - I have no
idea why, because the result is that the majority of Linux people is now
using other versions of Java instead.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.3 x86_64 “Dartmouth” at Telcontar)
Just a heads up:
The [noparse]Java:packages[/noparse] repo has been re-enabled for 12.3 now, although it will still take a while to build all the packages.
Since there are ~190 of them, this could take a few hours, maybe a day.
You can check the progress here: [https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/Java:packages[/noparse]"][noparse]https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/Java:packages[/noparse]](http://[noparse)
So it’s not necessary to continue using the repo for Factory anymore… 
Reference: [Bug 849437] http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Java:/packages/op