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OpenJDK 8 is a Long-Term Support (LTS) release of the Java platform.
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For a list of major changes in OpenJDK 8 (java-1.8.0-openjdk), see the
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upstream release page: https://openjdk.org/projects/jdk8/features
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# Rebuilding the OpenJDK package
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The OpenJDK packages are now created from a single build which is then
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packaged for different major versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux
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(RHEL). This allows the OpenJDK team to focus their efforts on the
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development and testing of this single build, rather than having
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multiple builds which only differ by the platform they were built on.
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This does make rebuilding the package slightly more complicated than a
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normal package. Modifications should be made to the
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`java-1.8.0-openjdk-portable.specfile` file, which can be found with
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this README file in the source RPM or installed in the documentation
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tree by the `java-1.8.0-openjdk-headless` RPM.
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Once the modified `java-1.8.0-openjdk-portable` RPMs are built, they
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should be installed and will produce a number of tarballs in the
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`/usr/lib/jvm` directory. The `java-1.8.0-openjdk` RPMs can then be
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built, which will use these tarballs to create the usual RPMs found in
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RHEL. The `java-1.8.0-openjdk-portable` RPMs can be uninstalled once
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the desired final RPMs are produced.
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Note that the `java-1.8.0-openjdk.spec` file has a hard requirement on
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the exact version of java-1.8.0-openjdk-portable to use, so this will
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need to be modified if the version or rpmrelease values are changed in
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`java-1.8.0-openjdk-portable.specfile`.
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To reduce the number of RPMs involved, the `fastdebug` and `slowdebug`
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builds may be disabled using `--without fastdebug` and `--without
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slowdebug`.
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