From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add Icedtea 3.0.0pre09 Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2016 11:27:05 +0100 Message-ID: <87a8lmsvie.fsf@gnu.org> References: <877fh04wk0.fsf@elephly.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55627) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ajOxT-0006mb-8B for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Mar 2016 06:27:12 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ajOxQ-0006iv-2C for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Mar 2016 06:27:11 -0400 In-Reply-To: <877fh04wk0.fsf@elephly.net> (Ricardo Wurmus's message of "Thu, 17 Mar 2016 22:35:43 +0100") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Ricardo Wurmus Cc: guix-devel Ricardo Wurmus skribis: > Ricardo Wurmus writes: > >> the latest icedtea-ified JDK has not yet been released, but this doesn= =E2=80=99t >> mean we can=E2=80=99t package it. >> >> Attached is a patch to add =E2=80=9Cicedtea-8=E2=80=9D (because it provi= des the JDK for >> Java version 1.8). It uses the upstream tarball for version 3.0.0pre09, >> which I had to mirror on my own server because the Guile HTTP client >> doesn=E2=80=99t like an invalid header in the response from >> http://icedtea.classpath.org. > > On IRC there was the idea to provide =E2=80=9Curl-fetch/wget=E2=80=9D whi= ch would be > less strict compared to the default Guile HTTP client. We could do that, but I would prefer fixing and/or monkey-patching the date header check in Guile. In this case, if the problem is date header validation, it seems that we could monkey-patch the =E2=80=98parse-rfc-822-date=E2=80=99 procedure of (w= eb http) to do the right thing. Would you like to give it a try? >> The version is declared as =E2=80=9C2.99.99-pre09=E2=80=9D so that versi= on =E2=80=9C3.0.0=E2=80=9D (when >> it is finally released) will be considered an update. > > Does it make sense to push this patch to master? Or should we wait for > an official release? Java 1.8 is already pretty old and it seems like > the pre-release is enough to build OpenJDK 8. I=E2=80=99d rather wait for an official release, but maybe there=E2=80=99s = a good reason to use the pre-release? Thanks, Ludo=E2=80=99.