Re: icedtea-1, icedtea-2 security updates

[Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>]

On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 08:27:14AM +0100, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
> Not only icedtea (i.e. the patches to the OpenJDK sources to make it
> buildable with free software) has to be updated, but also the “drops”.
> Drops are upstream OpenJDK source tarballs.
> 
> So for icedtea-6 this means the "openjdk6-src" input must be changed to
> 
>     https://java.net/downloads/openjdk6/openjdk-6-src-b38-20_jan_2016.tar.gz;
>     
> for icedtea-7 all of the added native-inputs must be changed, i.e:
> "openjdk-src", "corba-drop", "jaxp-drop", "jaxws-drop", "jdk-drop",
> "langtools-drop", "hotspot-drop".
> 
> The icedtea-7 package has a function to build origins from names and
> hashes, so you will just need to update the version and the individual
> drop hashes.  You can get all the icedtea-7 drops here:
> 
>     http://icedtea.wildebeest.org/download/drops/icedtea7/2.6.4/
> 
> Hope this helps!

Indeed, that helped! Thank you for taking the time to explain this.
Hopefully it took less time to explain than to do the updates yourself
;)

> 
> ~~ Ricardo
>