JAVA in Funtoo

[Oleg Vinichenko]

As of 6 March, Funtoo switched default JRE and JDK packages to oracle
binaries. It's java 7 update 51.
virtuals now switched to oracle-jre{jdk}-bin. Notice for fresh install.
Oracle packages are under fetch restriction. To download tarballs visit
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jre7-downloads-1880261.html,
read and accept license agreement, download corresponding source tarballs
(linux x86 or linux x64) and place tarball to /usr/portage/distfiles.
It doesn't impact users, who already have other JAVA implementations
installed. User, who prefer, icetdtea variant, can do following:

emerge icedtea-bin
emerge icedtea
This will avoid gcc-jdk requirement.

[Bartosz Nitkiewicz]

Finally :)

Oleg Vinichenko dixit (2014-03-06, 11:55):

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[Jonathan Vasquez]

Nice :). I like Oracle Java better than IcedTea.

[Daniel Robbins]

:) Thanks Oleg... time to pour some icedtea down the drain...

For people switching to Java 7 update 51, be aware that it has enhanced security, so follow these instructions if your applets do not run:

https://www.java.com/en/download/help/java_blocked.xml

Just literally run the "ControlPanel" from a terminal, and add an exception for the site hosting the applet. Then it will bypass security and run. This is needed for many Dell iDRAC controllers (virtual consoles).

antec drobbins # cd /opt/oracle-jre-bin-1.7.0.51/bin/

antec bin # ls

ControlPanel  java  java_vm  javaws  jcontrol  keytool  orbd  pack200  policytool  rmid  rmiregistry  servertool  tnameserv  unpack200

antec bin # ./ControlPanel 

Also, to enable Java in chrome, just emerge with "nsplugin" flag, and restart Chrome, and all is good. I sense a wiki page coming.

-Daniel

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[Oleg Vinichenko]

Thx, fore details, we will set nsplugin for desktop profile as suggested
in funtoo bugtracker, to reduce package.use

[Jacob Godserv]

I agree with this change too. As much as I like open-source alternative efforts, nothing beats the real thing for compatibility and stability. :)

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[Jean-Francis Roy]

Hi!

virtual/jre should still depend on either dev-java/oracle-jre-bin OR virtual/jdk.

JDK is a superset of JRE. With the new forked ebuild, JDK users are forced to manually download both dev-java/oracle-jdk-bin and dev-java/oracle-jre-bin. It also adds unneccessary java implementations :

# eselect java-vm list

Available Java Virtual Machines:

  [1]   oracle-jdk-bin-1.7  system-vm

  [2]   oracle-jre-bin-1.7

Thanks! :-)

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[Víctor Orozco]

On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 6:31 PM, Jean-Francis Roy <jeanf...@funtoo.org> wrote:

Hi!

virtual/jre should still depend on either dev-java/oracle-jre-bin OR virtual/jdk.

JDK is a superset of JRE. With the new forked ebuild, JDK users are forced to manually download both dev-java/oracle-jdk-bin and dev-java/oracle-jre-bin. It also adds unneccessary java implementations :

# eselect java-vm list

Available Java Virtual Machines:

  [1]   oracle-jdk-bin-1.7  system-vm

  [2]   oracle-jre-bin-1.7

Thanks! :-)

I noticed the same situation, at this time the virtual/jre ebuild depends only on oracle-jre-bin, however oracle-jdk-bin provides all the jre funcionallity, plus compilers and dev tools, maybe is a good idea to add oracle-jdk to the ebuild :).

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[skunk]

so is everybody forced to install oracle's java 1.7? isn't wiser let the user choose which java implementation he wants? why the hard masking of java 1.6?

i don't like to have less choices as with gentoo...

[Beni Grind]

 On Monday, 7 July 2014 03:31:49 UTC+2, skunk wrote:

so is everybody forced to install oracle's java 1.7? isn't wiser let the user choose which java implementation he wants? why the hard masking of java 1.6?

i don't like to have less choices as with gentoo...

I agree with this. I don't often use Java and everything I need it for work just fine in OpenJDK. I don't really need Oracle Java. Is there an easy way to switch back to OpenJDK?

[Daniel Robbins]

No, skunk, not everybody is forced to use Oracle Java. You can unmask and use another Java implementation if you want.

The masking was done to address dep issues where icedtea-bin would continually get pulled in even with Oracle-JDK installed. And there are several bugs that exist with other Java implementations.

On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 7:31 PM, skunk <sku...@gmail.com> wrote:

so is everybody forced to install oracle's java 1.7? isn't wiser let the user choose which java implementation he wants? why the hard masking of java 1.6?

i don't like to have less choices as with gentoo...

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[Daniel Robbins]

Just merge it.

-Daniel

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