while dealing with some fun moving hadoop-patch-test Jenkins to java 7, one thing that I can see is that the symlinks of latests java versions aren't
lrwxrwxrwx 1 jenkins jenkins 39 Oct 6 22:40 latest -> /home/jenkins/tools/java/jdk1.6.0_45-64 lrwxrwxrwx 1 jenkins jenkins 13 Jul 23 2011 latest1.4 -> j2sdk1.4.2_19 lrwxrwxrwx 1 jenkins jenkins 14 Jul 23 2011 latest1.5 -> jdk1.5.0_22-32 lrwxrwxrwx 1 jenkins jenkins 14 Jul 23 2011 latest1.5-32 -> jdk1.5.0_22-32 lrwxrwxrwx 1 jenkins jenkins 14 Jul 23 2011 latest1.5-64 -> jdk1.5.0_22-64 lrwxrwxrwx 1 jenkins jenkins 14 May 14 2013 latest1.6 -> jdk1.6.0_45-32 lrwxrwxrwx 1 jenkins jenkins 14 May 14 2013 latest1.6-32 -> jdk1.6.0_45-32 lrwxrwxrwx 1 jenkins jenkins 14 May 14 2013 latest1.6-64 -> jdk1.6.0_45-64 lrwxrwxrwx 1 jenkins jenkins 14 Jul 31 2013 latest1.7 -> jdk1.7.0_25-32 lrwxrwxrwx 1 jenkins jenkins 14 Jul 31 2013 latest1.7-32 -> jdk1.7.0_25-32 lrwxrwxrwx 1 jenkins jenkins 14 Jul 31 2013 latest1.7-64 -> jdk1.7.0_25-64 With the actual versions installed: drwxr-xr-x 9 jenkins jenkins 4096 Jul 23 2011 jdk1.5.0_17-32 drwxr-xr-x 9 jenkins jenkins 4096 Jul 23 2011 jdk1.5.0_17-64 drwxr-xr-x 9 jenkins jenkins 4096 Jul 23 2011 jdk1.5.0_22-32 drwxr-xr-x 9 jenkins jenkins 4096 Jul 23 2011 jdk1.5.0_22-64 drwxr-xr-x 10 jenkins jenkins 4096 Jul 23 2011 jdk1.6.0_11-32 drwxr-xr-x 10 jenkins jenkins 4096 Jul 23 2011 jdk1.6.0_11-64 drwxr-xr-x 10 jenkins jenkins 4096 Jul 23 2011 jdk1.6.0_20-32 drwxr-xr-x 10 jenkins jenkins 4096 Jul 23 2011 jdk1.6.0_20-32-unlimited-security drwxr-xr-x 10 jenkins jenkins 4096 Jul 23 2011 jdk1.6.0_20-64 drwxr-xr-x 10 jenkins jenkins 4096 Oct 16 2011 jdk1.6.0_27-32 drwxr-xr-x 10 jenkins jenkins 4096 Oct 16 2011 jdk1.6.0_27-64 drwxr-xr-x 8 jenkins jenkins 4096 Mar 26 2013 jdk1.6.0_45-32 drwxr-xr-x 8 jenkins jenkins 4096 Mar 26 2013 jdk1.6.0_45-64 drwxr-xr-x 8 jenkins jenkins 4096 Oct 3 2012 jdk1.7.0_04 drwxr-xr-x 8 jenkins jenkins 4096 Jun 6 2013 jdk1.7.0_25-32 drwxr-xr-x 8 jenkins jenkins 4096 Jun 6 2013 jdk1.7.0_25-64 drwxr-xr-x 10 jenkins jenkins 4096 Jun 27 2011 jdk1.7.0-32 drwxr-xr-x 8 jenkins jenkins 4096 Mar 18 2014 jdk1.7.0_55 drwxr-xr-x 10 jenkins jenkins 4096 Jun 27 2011 jdk1.7.0-64 drwxr-xr-x 8 jenkins jenkins 4096 Mar 4 2014 jdk1.8.0 Are these latest/ links explicitly frozen, or simply have been neglected for a while? -steve -- CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE NOTICE: This message is intended for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information that is confidential, privileged and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any printing, copying, dissemination, distribution, disclosure or forwarding of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please contact the sender immediately and delete it from your system. Thank You.
