OpenJDK 8 on CentOS 7

[Jiri Vanek]

On 12/01/2014 07:54 PM, Andrew Hughes wrote:
>
>
> ----- 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

Please  don't do this. The rpms in f21 are much more suited for live in rhel7 (alternatives 
handling, directroy naming, links... and so on...) The rpmrebuild of f21 srcrpm or this approach 
from Andrew (but with checkout f21) will then work for you very good.


J.
> $ spectool -g -R java-1.8.0-openjdk
> $ rpmbuild -bb java-1.8.0-openjdk.spec
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