Significant compromise to Java JRE 1.6.0.26

[wilcal]

Oracle/Sun/Java have announced a significant compromise
to the Java JRE. That includes the present rpms in the
Mageia repos:

java-1.6.0.26-2.mga1.nonfree.i586.rpm
java-1.6.0.26-2.mga2.nonfree.i586.rpm

1.6.0.29 with the fix is available from java.com

I have filed:

https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3558

[doktor5000]

Yes, has already been reported quite some time ago. We can't distribute any newer JRE build because Oracle withdrew
the "Operating System Distributor License for Java" as can be seen from https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3101
and there are some discussion going on how to fix that.

But thanks for spreading the facts to other forum users

[wilcal]

This is becoming a serious problem. Not only for
Mageia but other Distros. I can foresee a huge
mess over at Ubuntu if they try and purge their
user base of Sun/Oracle/Java. If the compromise
of .26 hadn't come along it would have gone
away quietly. Now there's this mess.

[doktor5000]

Why is this a serious problem? We still have openjdk, and don't forget in version 7 it's the java reference implementation ...

[wilcal]

Why is this a serious problem? We still have openjdk, and don't forget in version 7 it's the java reference implementation ...

Then our decision should be to remove Sun/Oracle/ Java
completely starting in Mageia 2 Alpha 3 should it not?

[waferhead]

OpenJRE has yet to work properly with serial , rxtxlib is typically used.

I'll give it a shot with TunerStudio anyway, but unless someone added that functionality very recently serial comms from java don't work.

Oracles latest is also not installing properly in Mg3A2 as installed from KDE dvd, all updates installed, even tried installing openjre first. Tried several versions, not clear what's missing.
(so far, everything else I typically use looks OK, other than partclone is missing from the repos)

Same download files I use on Mg2 w/o issue.
Installing any version tried gives the same errors:

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[root@localhost Downloads]# /usr/lib/mc/extfs.d/rpm run /home/greg/Downloads/jre-7u9-linux-i586.rpm INSTALL
Installing """"
Preparing...                          ################################# [100%]
Updating / installing...
   1:jre-1.7.0_09-fcs                 ################################# [100%]
Unpacking JAR files...
        rt.jar...
Error: Could not open input file: /usr/java/jre1.7.0_09/lib/rt.pack
        jsse.jar...
Error: Could not open input file: /usr/java/jre1.7.0_09/lib/jsse.pack
        charsets.jar...
Error: Could not open input file: /usr/java/jre1.7.0_09/lib/charsets.pack
        localedata.jar...
Error: Could not open input file: /usr/java/jre1.7.0_09/lib/ext/localedata.pack
        plugin.jar...
Error: Could not open input file: /usr/java/jre1.7.0_09/lib/plugin.pack
        javaws.jar...
Error: Could not open input file: /usr/java/jre1.7.0_09/lib/javaws.pack
        deploy.jar...
Error: Could not open input file: /usr/java/jre1.7.0_09/lib/deploy.pack

[waferhead]

Annoyingly, the above errors seem to be bogus, java works fine.

One still has to add /usr/java/latest/bin to your path, but that has always been the case.

[doktor5000]

[root@localhost Downloads]# /usr/lib/mc/extfs.d/rpm run /home/greg/Downloads/jre-7u9-linux-i586.rpm INSTALL
Installing """"
Preparing... ################################# [100%]
Updating / installing...
1:jre-1.7.0_09-fcs ################################# [100%]
Unpacking JAR files...
rt.jar...
Error: Could not open input file: /usr/java/jre1.7.0_09/lib/rt.pack

Maybe you tried to run it within midnight commander, when you looked inside that rpm?

[waferhead]

Sorry I didn't reply, i don't seem to have post notification on, will look at that.

Working on Mga3a2 now with openjvm 1.7.

I personally no longer need the Oracle closed bins.