open jdk7 marked "FORBIDDEN"

[Achilleas Mantzios]

On 04/01/2014 03:23, ari wrote:
>> The 'nasty FreeBSD bug' is that running the latest OpenJDK 6 or 7 will
>> cause pretty much all version of FreeBSD back to 8.0 to instantly
>> reboot.  This is actually a FreeBSD kernel bug.
>> Watch the freebsd-announce at ... list -- there will be at least an Errata
>> notice for all supported releases.
>
> I understand the desire to protect people from bad effects, but this lockout
> of every Java port (since everything pretty much depends on openjdk) is
> quite extreme. Can we please have some more information about:
>
> * the nature of the bug
> * how far back do we have to revert openjdk7 to avoid the problem
>
> I've got a huge reliance on Java on production servers and this makes me
> very nervous. I also had planned an upgrade from FreeBSD 9.0 to 9.2 on a
> server today and this can't go ahead since I cannot install an updated
> openjdk.
>
> If this is an obscure bug which is in all versions of the openjdk against
> all versions of freebsd, could someone please revert the FORBIDDEN flag on
> these ports, since its only effect is to:
>
> * make users believe that FreeBSD is not a good platform for Java
> * stop users from upgrading from any previous versions of Java, or otherwise
> update systems
>
> If this is a serious problem only in the latest version of Java (eg.
> 1.7.0_45) then can we revert the port to a known working version?
>
>
> At any rate, more information would be great since I've already got 1.7.0_45
> in production on a couple of machines and I need to know what to look out
> for.
>

Agree 100%. Better revert java 6/7 to stable ports rather than create this extreme impression along with the negative psychological effect it might have.

> Thanks
> Ari
>
>
>
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Achilleas Mantzios