OpenJDK 8 on CentOS 7

[Andrew Hughes]

----- Original Message -----
> * Arun Gupta <arun.gupta at gmail.com> [2014-11-29 10:11]:
> > Do you know the timelines by which it will be included in CentOS 7.0 ?
> > 
> 
> It will likely never been in 7.0 as there are no plans to introduce it
> in RHEL 7.0 at this time. If/when it is added to future RHEL 7 releases,
> it will probably eventually become available via CentOS accordingly.
> 
> > Any place where a binary build can be downloaded ?
> > 
> 
> Nope, since it is unavailable, there is no place to download from
> specifically for CentOS 7.0.

As RHEL/CentOS 7.0 is based on Fedora 19, you could try downloading the
latest RPM for that and installing.

Or, if the binary fails, you could try building it:

$ git clone git://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/java-1.8.0-openjdk
$ cd java-1.8.0-openjdk
$ git checkout f19
$ spectool -g -R java-1.8.0-openjdk
$ rpmbuild -bb java-1.8.0-openjdk.spec

-- 
Andrew :)

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