Distro Support

[Guillaume Alaux]

On 17 April 2014 00:34, Andrew Hughes <gnu_andrew at member.fsf.org> wrote:
>
> You may have noticed that I've linked to Gentoo ebuilds in the online
> versions of the most recent release announcements. I'm aware of these
> because I maintain them and can update them at the same time as the
> release announcement.
>
> I've also recently developed RPM builds for IcedTea. Links to these
> will be included in the current release announcements and future ones.
> They have been tested on Fedora but the aim is to be applicable to as
> many RPM-based distributions as possible. The spec files are
> maintained on github:
>
> https://github.com/gnu-andrew/java-1.6.0-icedtea
> https://github.com/gnu-andrew/java-1.7.0-icedtea
>
> I don't want to be seen to be preferencing certain distributions. If
> you package IcedTea for a particular distribution, please let me know
> and I'll be happy to mention those packages as well. They do need to
> be using the appropriate IcedTea release and keep local patches to
> a minimum.
>
> Thanks,
> --
> Andrew :)
>
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Hi Andrew,

Just for the record then, Arch Linux packages for OpenJDK7 use IcedTea
and are available here [0].

[0] https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/trunk?h=packages/java7-openjdk

Thanks,

Guillaume