[Bio-linux-dev] java-6-openjdk

[Tim Booth]

Hi Tony,

This doesn't stop the script being idempotent, but I agree that its not
really designed to be run once the upgrade is done and you have started
reconfiguring things.

I judged that having programs run with the old Java, which triggers
nasty glitches, slowdowns and bugs in things like Artemis and Taverna,
was more of a risk than upsetting any things which really need Java 6,
but I may have been wrong so do keep me posted if you find further
problems.

Cheers,

TIM

On Fri, 2014-08-15 at 14:39 +0100, Tony Travis wrote:
> Hi, Tim.
> 
> I just ran your 'indempotent' BL8 upgrade script again and realised that
> unconditionally purging "java-6-openjdk" might not be such a good idea
> after all...
> 
> We need it to run the "Structure" GUI, which doesn't work properly with
> "java-7-openjdk":
> 
>   http://pritchardlab.stanford.edu/structure.html
> 
> I think there might be other programs that need java-6 too. I'll let you
> know about any problems I encounter. BTW, I've left java-7 as the
> default Java - I only use java-6 for particular programs that need it,
> by specifying the full path to java-6 in a wrapper script.
> 
> Bye,
> 
>   Tony.
> 
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