Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, > It seems that Gentoo-devs have decided that Sun Java is end-of-life > with security problems. I don't find any mention of this or what is > recommended on the Gentoo front page so I figured I'd ask what others > are doing for their machines. > > Thanks, > Mark > >
I checked the changelog and it appears to be stable as of a few days ago. # ChangeLog for dev-java/sun-jre-bin # Copyright 1999-2009 Gentoo Foundation; Distributed under the GPL v2 # $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/dev-java/sun-jre-bin/ChangeLog,v 1.163 2009/11/05 21:28:43 maekke Exp $ 05 Nov 2009; Markus Meier <mae...@gentoo.org> sun-jre-bin-1.5.0.22.ebuild, sun-jre-bin-1.6.0.17.ebuild: amd64 stable, bug #291817 05 Nov 2009; Markus Meier <mae...@gentoo.org> sun-jre-bin-1.6.0.17.ebuild: x86 stable, bug #291817 05 Nov 2009; Markus Meier <mae...@gentoo.org> sun-jre-bin-1.5.0.22.ebuild: x86 stable, bug #291817 I synced my tree yesterday so unless it was done today it looks like it is still there. What kind of message are you getting? Dale :-) :-)
