[arch-general] Java 8

[Boyan Ding]

On Wed, 2014-06-04 at 23:20 +0200, Guillaume ALAUX wrote:
> On 2 June 2014 03:21, Boyan Ding <stu_dby at 126.com> wrote:
> > Hi Guillaume,
> > I really appreciate your work, but are the versioning of the openjdk8*
> > packages correct? They should be 8.u0_b132 or simply 8.u0 instead of
> > 8.u132...
> >
> > By the way I also made a PKGBUILD [1] based on yours and it's currently
> > on 8u5. The prebuilt packages are available on the OBS [2]. It added
> > some packages from Fedora to use system libs. No idea whether they fit
> > Arch.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Boyan Ding
> >
> > [1] https://github.com/dboyan/openjdk8-noicedtea
> > [2]
> > http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/dboyan:/openjdk8/Arch_Extra/
> >
> >
> >
> 
> Hi Boyan,
> 
> The versionning scheme shojuld be as you say. I must have missed that.
> 
> Thank you very much for sharing this. I have included your versionning
> scheme and use of upstream tarball in my PKGBUILD.
> 
> Up to date packages are available on the repo [0].
> 
> Also you might be interested in the very last version of the sources
> [1] (branch "with-meta" uses meta JDK packages as explained earlier on
> this thread. Be careful though, branch master is not exactly up to
> date). I did not use patches for system libs, I will "stay vanilla"
> until IcedTea take care of it.
Oh, that's great.

> 
> Just out of curiosity: are you officially affiliated with OpenSuse?
No, I'm not. Actually I got to know OBS not long ago and was just
curious about it.

Cheers,
Boyan Ding

> 
> [0] http://pkgbuild.com/~guillaume/repos/jdk
> [1] https://github.com/galaux/java8-openjdk/tree/with-meta