RFC: backport S7102369

[Dr Andrew John Hughes]

On 16:56 Wed 04 Jan     , Omair Majid wrote:
> On 12/12/2011 05:49 PM, Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> > On 17:46 Mon 12 Dec     , Omair Majid wrote:
> >> On 12/12/2011 05:41 PM, Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> >>> On 14:04 Mon 12 Dec     , Omair Majid wrote:
> >>>> Hi,
> >>>>
> >>>> I would like to backport the fix for S7102369 to icedtea6.
> >>>>
> >>>> The fix is already in jdk6, but missed the jdk6b24 cutoff:
> >>>> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk6/jdk6/jdk/rev/6b46f3c7c97c
> >>>>
> >>>> This fixes a regression caused by the recent security update that
> >>>> requires rmiregistry to be started with java.rmi.server.codebase
> >>>> property set. Additional details can be found in this bug report:
> >>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=751203
> >>>>
> >>>> The patch for HEAD is attached. If no one has any objections, I will
> >>>> prepare patches for 1.9 and 1.10 as well.
> >>>>
> >>>> ChangeLog:
> >>>> 2011-12-12  Omair Majid<omajid at redhat.com>
> >>>>
> >>>>        S7102369, S7094468: remove java.rmi.server.codebase property
> >>>>        parsing from rmiregistry
> >>>>        * patches/openjdk/7102369-7094468-rmiregistry.patch: New file.
> >>>>        Backport from OpenJDK6.
> >>>>        * Makefile.am (ICEDTEA_PATCHES): Apply the patch.
> >>>>
> >>>> Any thoughts or comments?
> >>>>
> >>>
> > I would suggest adding it there, then posting the backports in a week's time if no
> > issues arise.
> >
> 
> It's been more than a week and I have not heard any issues. Patches for 
> 1.8, 1.9 and 1.10 attached.
> 
> Thanks,
> Omair
> 

This is a regression so I think it needs to go in.  Approved.

I'll post separately about doing a new bunch of update releases.
-- 
Andrew :)

Free Java Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com)

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