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paul cannon commented on CASSANDRA-4498:
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bq. What is it that currently stops OpenJDK 7 from being a good choice. I
haven't done any thorough testing, but it seems to work fairly well with
Cassandra (but then again, so does OpenJDK 6 for the most part).
I've only heard assertions that it's still "pretty buggy" (such as
[here|https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-4275?focusedCommentId=13419886&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-13419886]),
and that it's had little to no thorough real-world testing. Would definitely
be nice to have though.
As far as the ticket comment, the submitter says that installing openjdk-6-jre
can potentially interfere with a preexisting sun JRE install. Is that just the
potential for the new JRE to show up first in $PATH and be preferred by the
alternatives system, or is there some more significant problem?
> Remove openjdk-6-jre Cassandra APT dependencies
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>
> Key: CASSANDRA-4498
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-4498
> Project: Cassandra
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Terrance Shepherd
> Assignee: paul cannon
> Priority: Minor
> Labels: debian
> Fix For: 1.1.4, 1.2
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> Attachments: apache_cassandra_Packages.diff
>
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> As it is well known the recommended jre for Cassandra is sun java 1.6 but at
> this point that package no longer in the debian or ubuntu apt repos. In order
> to run Cassandra with the sun java 1.6 jre it must be installed manually with
> out the repos. Because of this when you install cassandra via the apache or
> datastax apt repos it must also install openjdk-6-jre even though sun java
> 1.6 jre is already installed.
> I would suggest that the java apt dependencies be removed from the Depends
> field in package configuration and move to either the Recommends or Suggests
> field so that way openjdk is not being downloaded when not necessary and
> possibly interfering with a be pre-installed jre
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