Request for approval to 7u4 for 7081783: jarsigner error when no $HOME/.keystore

[Edvard Wendelin]

Approved.

Cheers,
Edvard

On 28 sep 2011, at 04.15, Weijun Wang wrote:

> Hi All
>
> This is a request to backport a jdk8 fix into jdk7u4 b01.
>
> CR: 7081783: jarsigner error when no $HOME/.keystore
> Weblink: http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=7081783
>
> Description:
>
> When there is no user default keystore (~/.keystore), jarsigner has  
> a bug that prevents the CertPathValidator object been created,  
> therefore, it would always print out a warning "certificate chain is  
> not validated" even if it can be validated.
>
> The fix is already included in jdk8 as:
>
>   changeset:   4516:62c25e4c30a3
>   user:        weijun
>   date:        Mon Sep 05 11:22:27 2011 +0800
>   URL:         http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/tl/jdk/rev/62c25e4c30a3
>   Reviewed-by: xuelei
>
> The patch for jdk7u4 is identical to the one in jdk8.
>
> I intend to push it to
>
>   ssh://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7u/jdk7u-dev-gate/jdk
>
> Thanks
> Weijun