Subject: Re: sun-jre14 won't build
To: None <tech-pkg@netbsd.org>
From: grant beattie <grant@netbsd.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 10/30/2003 22:14:15
On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 01:17:01PM -0500, Jan Schaumann wrote:
> > Because of a vulnerabilities list security warning, I decided to reinstall
> > sun-jre14. Unfortunately, it won't build, because sun now hands out
> > j2re-1_4_2_02-linux-i586.bin and the package demands that you have
> > j2re-1_4_2_01-linux-i586.bin. Since this is security critical, could
> > it be fixed?
>
> I was going to wait until after the freeze, but obviously I forgot that
> whenever a new version is out, the old tarball becomes unavailable. So
> I'll update it lateron today or tomorrow.
does the license prohibit us from mirroring the distfiles?
g.