On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 5:48 PM Carsten Mattner via arch-general <arch-general@archlinux.org> wrote:
On 9/17/18, Eli Schwartz via arch-general <arch-general@archlinux.org> wrote:
So essentially what you really want is a way for pacman to remember your choice. That would require pacman modify its configuration which is something that goes against the current architecture... What would happen instead is pacman.conf could be used to configure this.
I'm not sure if IgnorePkg or HoldPkg would have an effect here...
The way I read it, what's being suggested is something like Debian's update-alternatives. https://wiki.debian.org/DebianAlternatives
Or a JVM version manager ala pyenv etc. Not sure.
Just to give some backing: here is the official explanation of what has already been stated before about JDK versions: "[…] non‑LTS releases are considered a cumulative set of implementation enhancements of the most recent LTS release. Once a new feature release is made available, any previous non‑LTS release will be considered superseded. For example, Java SE 9 was a non‑LTS release and immediately superseded by Java SE 10 (also non‑LTS), Java SE 10 in turn is immediately superseded by Java SE 11." [0] So keeping OpenJDK 9 in our repo while OpenJDK 10 is out would be the same as keeping say OpenJDK 8.u181 while OpenJDK 8.u182 is out! Even though I can understand the (developer) use case, this is clearly out of Arch Linux' scope. [0] http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/eol-135779.html Guillaume