On Wed, 9 Apr 2025 16:10:20 GMT, Severin Gehwolf <sgehw...@openjdk.org> wrote:

>> For JEP 493-enabled builds there are no JMODs. Certain files come from the 
>> installed JDK image when a user creates a custom run-time from it. This is 
>> problematic for example for files that often come from a different package 
>> (e.g. `cacerts` file for Linux distro builds of OpenJDK packaged as RPMs), 
>> or more generally when they get updated out-of-band of the JDK build itself 
>> like the tzupdater tool.
>> 
>> When that happens the hash sum recorded at JDK build time of those files no 
>> longer match, causing `jlink` to fail. I propose to allow for those files to 
>> get "upgraded" should this happen. The way this works is as follows:
>> 
>> 1. The list of upgradeable files is configured by a resource file in 
>> `jdk.jlink` on a per module basis. Right now, only two files from the 
>> `java.base` module will be allowed to be upgraded with a link from the 
>> current run-time image.
>> 2. For those files the hash sum checks are skipped.
>> 
>> **Testing**
>> 
>> - [x] GHA
>> - [x] `jdk/tools/jlink` jtreg tests (also on 
>> [GHA](https://github.com/jerboaa/jdk/actions/runs/14308729271))
>> - [x] Some manual tests with updated `tzdb.dat` and `cacerts` files.
>> 
>> Thoughts?
>
> Severin Gehwolf has updated the pull request incrementally with one 
> additional commit since the last revision:
> 
>   Use *.conf for upgrade files

Marked as reviewed by alanb (Reviewer).

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PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/24388#pullrequestreview-2755918801

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