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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] sun-jre-bin end-of-life - what now?
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:27:54
Message-Id: 4AF8CFA5.9070700@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] sun-jre-bin end-of-life - what now? by Mark Knecht
1 Mark Knecht wrote:
2 > Hi,
3 > It seems that Gentoo-devs have decided that Sun Java is end-of-life
4 > with security problems. I don't find any mention of this or what is
5 > recommended on the Gentoo front page so I figured I'd ask what others
6 > are doing for their machines.
7 >
8 > Thanks,
9 > Mark
10 >
11 >
12
13 I checked the changelog and it appears to be stable as of a few days ago.
14
15 # ChangeLog for dev-java/sun-jre-bin
16 # Copyright 1999-2009 Gentoo Foundation; Distributed under the GPL v2
17 # $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/dev-java/sun-jre-bin/ChangeLog,v
18 1.163 2009/11/05 21:28:43 maekke Exp $
19
20 05 Nov 2009; Markus Meier <maekke@g.o> sun-jre-bin-1.5.0.22.ebuild,
21 sun-jre-bin-1.6.0.17.ebuild:
22 amd64 stable, bug #291817
23
24 05 Nov 2009; Markus Meier <maekke@g.o> sun-jre-bin-1.6.0.17.ebuild:
25 x86 stable, bug #291817
26
27 05 Nov 2009; Markus Meier <maekke@g.o> sun-jre-bin-1.5.0.22.ebuild:
28 x86 stable, bug #291817
29
30
31 I synced my tree yesterday so unless it was done today it looks like it
32 is still there. What kind of message are you getting?
33
34 Dale
35
36 :-) :-)

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