Source Bundles

[Seán Coffey]

Simone,

7u6 was the last public 7u release worked via OpenJDK 7u. It was 
released in August 2012. The various jdk7 updates released since then 
have been CPUs (Critical Patch Updates) which are not worked in open 
repos. 7u10 was the exception to that [1]

7u14 is the OpenJDK 7u release currently under development and is due 
for release in April [2]

On the jdk7u6-b24 tags issue, I'm surprised they don't match up. Maybe 
you want to expand on what sort of source differences you're seeing. 
Have you been able to trace what changesets are causing the discrepancy ?

The safest way of cloning jdk7u6 GA is probably via the stabilization 
forest that was used :
http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7u/jdk7u6/

regards,
Sean.

[1] 
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk7u-dev/2012-September/004630.html
[2] http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk7u/releases/7u14.html

On 21/01/2013 22:50, Simone Bordet wrote:
> Hi,
>
> source bundles appear to be updated only to 7u6 in this page:
> http://jdk7.java.net/source.html
>
> I could not find a tarball for any subsequent 7u release, so I
> installed mercurial and followed instructions at
> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/build/raw-file/tip/README-builds.html#get_source
> (without the forest extension), replacing "jdk7" with "jdk7u", and got
> the sources, in detail:
>
> $ hg clone http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7u/jdk7u jdk7u
> $ cd jdk7u
> $ ./make/scripts/hgforest.sh update jdk7u6-b24
>
> Then I compared what I got from mercurial with what was bundled as zip
> file, and the sources are *different*. Small differences in several
> files, but still.
>
> I have two questions:
> 1) why the source bundle page is not up-to-date ? Perhaps it is in
> another page that I could not find ?
> 2) what is the correct way to get the sources for a specific
> "official" JDK release ? I was really surprised to see that the 7u6
> bundle and the mercurial approach for the same tag yielded different
> sources. Ideally, given an Oracle JDK 7ux-by, I would like to obtain
> the source bundle that was used to build it, which I assume would be
> tagged with jdk7ux-by in mercurial.
>
> The reason for this request is that I maintain the Next Protocol
> Negotiation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Next_Protocol_Negotiation)
> changes that are required to make Java support the SPDY protocol
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPDY), and these changes require
> modification to the OpenJDK sources (it's hacky but works until there
> will be a public TLS extension API supported in the JDK - I am all
> ears for suggestions on how to make this happen).
>
> Thanks !
>
> Simon
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