[Deploying Sakai] [Building Sakai] Be careful: Ubuntu's Sun JDK packages going away soon

[Wolfgang Rohregger]

We tried the OpenJDK 7 for Sakai 2.8.1 but had some problems with certain tests randomly failing. We didn't take the time to investigate this further.

Cheers,

Wolfgang



-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org [mailto:sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] Im Auftrag von Adam Marshall
Gesendet: Montag, 19. Dezember 2011 12:11
An: Adams, David; production at collab.sakaiproject.org; sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org
Betreff: Re: [Building Sakai] Be careful: Ubuntu's Sun JDK packages going away soon

We're keen to move to OpenJDK but don't want to do this in the absence of central QA using this platform. This will get around all the problems that you list.

Can anybody say when we wi9ll move to this platform?

adam

> -----Original Message-----
> From: sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org [mailto:sakai-dev- 
> bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] On Behalf Of Adams, David
> Sent: 17 December 2011 20:54
> To: production at collab.sakaiproject.org; 
> sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org
> Subject: [Building Sakai] Be careful: Ubuntu's Sun JDK packages going 
> away soon
> 
> I didn't realize this was coming so I wanted to make sure everyone 
> here was
> aware:
> 
> Due to some licensing changes from Oracle, open OS distributors are no 
> longer allowed to distribute the JDK. Canonical has announced [1] that 
> it will soon be removing the Sun JDK packages from its partner 
> repository. But not only will the packages no longer be available for 
> new installation, but if you have the Sun JDK packages already 
> installed and run an apt-get update, Java WILL BE REMOVED from your 
> system. To continue using the Sun JDK, you will have to download and install it manually.
> 
> I'm not sure how this will affect Debian or other open Linux 
> distributions, but I assume at the very least that no new updates will 
> be coming for JDK 6. In any case, it may be wise to install and update 
> Java yourself if you don't already do so (it's pretty easy to do).
> 
> [1] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2011-
> December/001528.html
> 
> 
> David Adams
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