Where to post an experimental package? (java-1.7.0-openjdk)

Peter Robinson pbrobinson at gmail.com
Thu May 14 14:45:47 UTC 2009


> On May 21, Sun plans on releasing a preview of JDK7[1]. We (the OpenJDK
> team) would like to create a java-1.7.0-openjdk package for experimental and
> testing purposes. A few options were we create the fedora rpms and submit
> them to rpmfusion (or similar), host them on a my personal fedora page, or
> get the package into Fedora.
>
> I am wondering what some other acceptable options are. I am not keen on
> getting this package pushed into Fedora since java-1.6.0-openjdk already
> exists, and jdk7 will not be stable until sometime after Feb 2010[1].
>
> Suggestions?

Is it possible to do a dist-f12-openjdk17 branch in koji similar to
what was done for python 2.6 so its then easy to merge mainline. Or
possibly a fedorahosted project?

Peter




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