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Re: Meeting notes: 3/24/09 release Team

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Evan Broder)
Tue Mar 24 15:38:27 2009

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Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:37:39 -0500
From: Evan Broder <broder@MIT.EDU>
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To: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@mit.edu>
CC: Bill Cattey <wdc@mit.edu>, athena10@mit.edu
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Anders Kaseorg wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Mar 2009, Bill Cattey wrote:
>   
>> * OpenJDK plugin tries to open a fifo in AFS homedir.  Reg App does not
>> work well.  Revert to Sun JDK.
>>     
>
> Since this problem only affects the plugin (I checked; that is the only 
> mkfifo() in the openjdk code), I think for now we should replace 
> icedtea6-plugin with sun-java6-plugin (which will pull in and use 
> sun-java6-bin), but leave openjdk-6-jdk installed.
>
> Also, we should report this openjdk bug and propose a solution.
>
> Anders
>   

Sure. That should be fine. To force the issue, debathena-cluster may
want to conflict with icedtea6-plugin for now - I'm not sure that simply
removing the dependency will cause icedtea6-plugin to be removed.

- Evan

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