Enhancement Advisory Updated java-1.4.2-ibm packages

Advisory: RHEA-2004:608-09
Type: Product Enhancement Advisory
Severity: N/A
Issued on: 2004-12-21
Last updated on: 2004-12-21
Affected Products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Extras (v. 3)
OVAL: N/A

Details

Updated java-1.4.2-ibm packages that fix some packaging issues are now
available.

The following packages comprise IBM's 1.4.2 Java release:

java-1.4.2-ibm
java-1.4.2-ibm-devel
java-1.4.2-ibm-src
java-1.4.2-ibm-demo
java-1.4.2-ibm-plugin

These packages include the IBM Java 2 Runtime Environment and the IBM Java
2 Software Development Kit.

The Java 2 Runtime Environment (JRE) consists of the Java virtual machine,
the Java platform core classes and supporting files, and includes a Web
browser plug-in for running Java applets. It is the runtime section of the
Java 2 SDK, but without the development tools such as compilers and debuggers.

The Java 2 Software Development Kit (SDK) is a development environment for
building applications, applets, and components that can be deployed on the
Java platform. The Java 2 SDK software includes tools useful for
developing and testing programs written in the Java programming language.
The Java 2 SDK software also includes a JDBC/ODBC bridge for Java
applications that need to communicate with a database.

These updated packages resolve some packaging issues. On 64-bit
architectures, the old packages would fail to install because they assumed
that the common jvm directories resided in /usr/lib64 rather than /usr/lib.

The previous base JRE package replaced the old IBMJava2-SDK packages. With
these new packages, this is no longer the case.

The java tool wrapper scripts, used to limit the stack size and a jvm bug
work around, has been fixed. This logic has been removed from the scripts
in this release.

All users of java-1.4.2-ibm should upgrade to these updated packages, which
resolve these issues.


Solution

Note for AMD64 users: If you have been using the i386 packages on an AMD64
RHEL3 installation, it is important that you remove the i386 packages
before installing these new AMD64 packages. There is an RPM bug which
breaks alternatives symlinks if two packages of the same name, but for
different architectures, are installed on the same machine. See this bug
report for details: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=127359

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

To update all RPMs for your particular architecture, run:

rpm -Fvh [filenames]

where [filenames] is a list of the RPMs you wish to upgrade. Only those
RPMs which are currently installed will be updated. Those RPMs which are
not installed but included in the list will not be updated. Note that you
can also use wildcards (*.rpm) if your current directory *only* contains the
desired RPMs.

Please note that this update is also available via Red Hat Network. Many
people find this an easier way to apply updates. To use Red Hat Network,
launch the Red Hat Update Agent with the following command:

up2date

This will start an interactive process that will result in the appropriate
RPMs being upgraded on your system.

Updated packages

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Extras (v. 3)

SRPMS:
java-1.4.2-ibm-1.4.2.0-1jpp_13rh.src.rpm     cf08936be924c4131147683748055b50
java-1.4.2-ibm-1.4.2.0-1jpp_13rh.src.rpm     cf08936be924c4131147683748055b50
java-1.4.2-ibm-1.4.2.0-1jpp_13rh.src.rpm     cf08936be924c4131147683748055b50
java-1.4.2-ibm-1.4.2.0-1jpp_13rh.src.rpm     cf08936be924c4131147683748055b50
 
IA-32:
java-1.4.2-ibm-1.4.2.0-1jpp_13rh.i386.rpm
File outdated by:  RHSA-2008:0555
    f6f052a91e3f9670546e8f716e36aaf4
java-1.4.2-ibm-1.4.2.0-1jpp_13rh.i386.rpm
File outdated by:  RHSA-2008:0555
    f6f052a91e3f9670546e8f716e36aaf4
java-1.4.2-ibm-1.4.2.0-1jpp_13rh.i386.rpm
File outdated by:  RHSA-2008:0555
    f6f052a91e3f9670546e8f716e36aaf4
java-1.4.2-ibm-1.4.2.0-1jpp_13rh.i386.rpm
File outdated by:  RHSA-2008:0555
    f6f052a91e3f9670546e8f716e36aaf4
java-1.4.2-ibm-demo-1.4.2.0-1jpp_13rh.i386.rpm
File outdated by:  RHSA-2008:0555
    ad755f80e3d94279c1f9ee8e693955c4
java-1.4.2-ibm-demo-1.4.2.0-1jpp_13rh.i386.rpm
File outdated by:  RHSA-2008:0555
    ad755f80e3d94279c1f9ee8e693955c4
java-1.4.2-ibm-demo-1.4.2.0-1jpp_13rh.i386.rpm
File outdated by:  RHSA-2008:0555
    ad755f80e3d94279c1f9ee8e693955c4
java-1.4.2-ibm-demo-1.4.2.0-1jpp_13rh.i386.rpm
File outdated by:  RHSA-2008:0555
    ad755f80e3d94279c1f9ee8e693955c4
java-1.4.2-ibm-devel-1.4.2.0-1jpp_13rh.i386.rpm
File outdated by:  RHSA-2008:0555
    87774d58f3b95476336bfb4340c6bbd8
java-1.4.2-ibm-devel-1.4.2.0-1jpp_13rh.i386.rpm
File outdated by:  RHSA-2008:0555
    87774d58f3b95476336bfb4340c6bbd8
java-1.4.2-ibm-devel-1.4.2.0-1jpp_13rh.i386.rpm
File outdated by:  RHSA-2008:0555
    87774d58f3b95476336bfb4340c6bbd8
java-1.4.2-ibm-devel-1.4.2.0-1jpp_13rh.i386.rpm
File outdated by:  RHSA-2008:0555
    87774d58f3b95476336bfb4340c6bbd8
java-1.4.2-ibm-jdbc-1.4.2.0-1jpp_13rh.i386.rpm
File outdated by:  RHSA-2008:0555
    b2768d09e5becf0781749a63201d866c
java-1.4.2-ibm-jdbc-1.4.2.0-1jpp_13rh.i386.rpm
File outdated by:  RHSA-2008:0555
    b2768d09e5becf0781749a63201d866c
java-1.4.2-ibm-jdbc-1.4.2.0-1jpp_13rh.i386.rpm
File outdated by:  RHSA-2008:0555
    b2768d09e5becf0781749a63201d866c
java-1.4.2-ibm-jdbc-1.4.2.0-1jpp_13rh.i386.rpm
File outdated by:  RHSA-2008:0555
    b2768d09e5becf0781749a63201d866c
java-1.4.2-ibm-plugin-1.4.2.0-1jpp_13rh.i386.rpm
File outdated by:  RHSA-2008:0555
    7f7a1ce8624274833fcf6b696d037159
java-1.4.2-ibm-plugin-1.4.2.0-1jpp_13rh.i386.rpm
File outdated by:  RHSA-2008:0555
    7f7a1ce8624274833fcf6b696d037159
java-1.4.2-ibm-plugin-1.4.2.0-1jpp_13rh.i386.rpm
File outdated by:  RHSA-2008:0555
    7f7a1ce8624274833fcf6b696d037159
java-1.4.2-ibm-plugin-1.4.2.0-1jpp_13rh.i386.rpm
File outdated by:  RHSA-2008:0555
    7f7a1ce8624274833fcf6b696d037159
java-1.4.2-ibm-src-1.4.2.0-1jpp_13rh.i386.rpm
File outdated by:  RHSA-2008:0555
    c6730923b7db2a59065dd0d798d71cfa
java-1.4.2-ibm-src-1.4.2.0-1jpp_13rh.i386.rpm
File outdated by:  RHSA-2008:0555
    c6730923b7db2a59065dd0d798d71cfa
java-1.4.2-ibm-src-1.4.2.0-1jpp_13rh.i386.rpm
File outdated by:  RHSA-2008:0555
    c6730923b7db2a59065dd0d798d71cfa
java-1.4.2-ibm-src-1.4.2.0-1jpp_13rh.i386.rpm
File outdated by:  RHSA-2008:0555
    c6730923b7db2a59065dd0d798d71cfa
 
IA-64:
java-1.4.2-ibm-1.4.2.0-1jpp_13rh.ia64.rpm
File outdated by:  RHSA-2008:0555
    e64de61431dac0aa0019b1ea36912769
java-1.4.2-ibm-1.4.2.0-1jpp_13rh.ia64.rpm
File outdated by:  RHSA-2008:0555
    e64de61431dac0aa0019b1ea36912769
java-1.4.2-ibm-1.4.2.0-1jpp_13rh.ia64.rpm
File outdated by:  RHSA-2008:0555
    e64de61431dac0aa0019b1ea36912769
java-1.4.2-ibm-demo-1.4.2.0-1jpp_13rh.ia64.rpm
File outdated by:  RHSA-2008:0555
    5f25056699da837c60d199aa714adf74
java-1.4.2-ibm-demo-1.4.2.0-1jpp_13rh.ia64.rpm
File outdated by:  RHSA-2008:0555
    5f25056699da837c60d199aa714adf74
java-1.4.2-ibm-demo-1.4.2.0-1jpp_13rh.ia64.rpm
File outdated by:  RHSA-2008:0555
    5f25056699da837c60d199aa714adf74
java-1.4.2-ibm-devel-1.4.2.0-1jpp_13rh.ia64.rpm
File outdated by:  RHSA-2008:0555
    d25270230dfb1d27c14d1252cc461965
java-1.4.2-ibm-devel-1.4.2.0-1jpp_13rh.ia64.rpm
File outdated by:  RHSA-2008:0555
    d25270230dfb1d27c14d1252cc461965
java-1.4.2-ibm-devel-1.4.2.0-1jpp_13rh.ia64.rpm
File outdated by:  RHSA-2008:0555
    d25270230dfb1d27c14d1252cc461965
java-1.4.2-ibm-src-1.4.2.0-1jpp_13rh.ia64.rpm
File outdated by:  RHSA-2008:0555
    caf2ba3616eb9941fba83a3836310706
java-1.4.2-ibm-src-1.4.2.0-1jpp_13rh.ia64.rpm
File outdated by:  RHSA-2008:0555
    caf2ba3616eb9941fba83a3836310706
java-1.4.2-ibm-src-1.4.2.0-1jpp_13rh.ia64.rpm
File outdated by:  RHSA-2008:0555
    caf2ba3616eb9941fba83a3836310706
 
PPC:
java-1.4.2-ibm-1.4.2.0-1jpp_13rh.ppc.rpm
File outdated by:  RHSA-2008:0555
    3947fb7de7394fabe54438b032272e22
java-1.4.2-ibm-demo-1.4.2.0-1jpp_13rh.ppc.rpm
File outdated by:  RHSA-2008:0555
    01f1479d1c7f40f435d09c3faf619cc5
java-1.4.2-ibm-devel-1.4.2.0-1jpp_13rh.ppc.rpm
File outdated by:  RHSA-2008:0555
    b9e13f1709cf81179f44743a018804e1
java-1.4.2-ibm-src-1.4.2.0-1jpp_13rh.ppc.rpm
File outdated by:  RHSA-2008:0555
    15b45be1466e53b9c91bef8aa326faa6
 
s390:
java-1.4.2-ibm-1.4.2.0-1jpp_13rh.s390.rpm
File outdated by:  RHSA-2008:0555
    00a416553e12bdbacf8a74b43ae4b9e1
java-1.4.2-ibm-demo-1.4.2.0-1jpp_13rh.s390.rpm
File outdated by:  RHSA-2008:0555
    43fc9e6f0bba8d283029aeda34c131ac
java-1.4.2-ibm-devel-1.4.2.0-1jpp_13rh.s390.rpm
File outdated by:  RHSA-2008:0555
    d93142b86d4e1acda66844f9ffa66224
java-1.4.2-ibm-src-1.4.2.0-1jpp_13rh.s390.rpm
File outdated by:  RHSA-2008:0555
    6e1c9c6c4aa8210f2fc58daec993376a
 
s390x:
java-1.4.2-ibm-1.4.2.0-1jpp_13rh.s390x.rpm
File outdated by:  RHSA-2008:0555
    e35c0c816334f892cb3d2ddaaf9c4b09
java-1.4.2-ibm-demo-1.4.2.0-1jpp_13rh.s390x.rpm
File outdated by:  RHSA-2008:0555
    7808ca36384b9cb1ae90d377dbda76d4
java-1.4.2-ibm-devel-1.4.2.0-1jpp_13rh.s390x.rpm
File outdated by:  RHSA-2008:0555
    98a13c3b6c70cb560466bbfe0e45de95
java-1.4.2-ibm-src-1.4.2.0-1jpp_13rh.s390x.rpm
File outdated by:  RHSA-2008:0555
    74970f2c28865d81b9b5c70448e660ad
 
x86_64:
java-1.4.2-ibm-1.4.2.0-1jpp_13rh.x86_64.rpm
File outdated by:  RHSA-2008:0555
    f68089a04de14b09cbfed791522f872d
java-1.4.2-ibm-1.4.2.0-1jpp_13rh.x86_64.rpm
File outdated by:  RHSA-2008:0555
    f68089a04de14b09cbfed791522f872d
java-1.4.2-ibm-1.4.2.0-1jpp_13rh.x86_64.rpm
File outdated by:  RHSA-2008:0555
    f68089a04de14b09cbfed791522f872d
java-1.4.2-ibm-1.4.2.0-1jpp_13rh.x86_64.rpm
File outdated by:  RHSA-2008:0555
    f68089a04de14b09cbfed791522f872d
java-1.4.2-ibm-demo-1.4.2.0-1jpp_13rh.x86_64.rpm
File outdated by:  RHSA-2008:0555
    da768e82ba058632280566c1c1bf1e5b
java-1.4.2-ibm-demo-1.4.2.0-1jpp_13rh.x86_64.rpm
File outdated by:  RHSA-2008:0555
    da768e82ba058632280566c1c1bf1e5b
java-1.4.2-ibm-demo-1.4.2.0-1jpp_13rh.x86_64.rpm
File outdated by:  RHSA-2008:0555
    da768e82ba058632280566c1c1bf1e5b
java-1.4.2-ibm-demo-1.4.2.0-1jpp_13rh.x86_64.rpm
File outdated by:  RHSA-2008:0555
    da768e82ba058632280566c1c1bf1e5b
java-1.4.2-ibm-devel-1.4.2.0-1jpp_13rh.x86_64.rpm
File outdated by:  RHSA-2008:0555
    9acc3832347665b42d5e69674a1979ce
java-1.4.2-ibm-devel-1.4.2.0-1jpp_13rh.x86_64.rpm
File outdated by:  RHSA-2008:0555
    9acc3832347665b42d5e69674a1979ce
java-1.4.2-ibm-devel-1.4.2.0-1jpp_13rh.x86_64.rpm
File outdated by:  RHSA-2008:0555
    9acc3832347665b42d5e69674a1979ce
java-1.4.2-ibm-devel-1.4.2.0-1jpp_13rh.x86_64.rpm
File outdated by:  RHSA-2008:0555
    9acc3832347665b42d5e69674a1979ce
java-1.4.2-ibm-src-1.4.2.0-1jpp_13rh.x86_64.rpm
File outdated by:  RHSA-2008:0555
    4c456043f17fe24b2427aa2973d37482
java-1.4.2-ibm-src-1.4.2.0-1jpp_13rh.x86_64.rpm
File outdated by:  RHSA-2008:0555
    4c456043f17fe24b2427aa2973d37482
java-1.4.2-ibm-src-1.4.2.0-1jpp_13rh.x86_64.rpm
File outdated by:  RHSA-2008:0555
    4c456043f17fe24b2427aa2973d37482
java-1.4.2-ibm-src-1.4.2.0-1jpp_13rh.x86_64.rpm
File outdated by:  RHSA-2008:0555
    4c456043f17fe24b2427aa2973d37482
 
(The unlinked packages above are only available from the Red Hat Network)

Bugs fixed (see bugzilla for more information)

112903 - java crashes on startup when given an unlimited stack
125664 - java-1.4.1-ibm-1.4.1.2-1jpp_2rh says it obsoletes both IBMJava2-JRE and IBMJava2-SDK but only obsoletes the JRE package



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