Sun Java for SME Server 7.4

Add jpackage GPG key to system.

# rpm --import http://www.jpackage.org/jpackage.asc

Add jpackage repositories to database

# db yum_repositories set jpackage-generic repository \
Name 'JPackage (free), generic' \
MirrorList 'http://www.jpackage.org/mirrorlist.php?dist=generic&type=free&release=1.7' \
GPGCheck yes \
Visible yes \
status enabled

# db yum_repositories set jpackage-rhel repository \
Name 'JPackage (free) for Red Hat Enterprise Linux $releasever' \
MirrorList 'http://www.jpackage.org/mirrorlist.php?dist=redhat-el-$releasever&type=free&release=1.7' \
GPGCheck yes \
status enabled

# db yum_repositories set jpackage-generic-nonfree repository \
Name 'JPackage (non-free), generic' \
MirrorList 'http://www.jpackage.org/jpackage_generic_nonfree_1.7.txt' \
GPGCheck yes \
status enabled

# expand-template /etc/yum.smerepos.d/sme-base.repo

Install jpackage-utils package

# yum install jpackage-utils

Download and install java-1.6.0-sun from here

# wget http://mirrors.dotsrc.org/jpackage/1.7/generic/SRPMS.non-free/java-1.6.0-sun-1.6.0.11-1jpp.nosrc.rpm
# rpm -ivh java-1.6.0-sun-1.6.0.11-1jpp.nosrc.rpm

Get my updated specs file from here and put it in /usr/src/redhat/SPECS.

# wget http://besme.googlecode.com/files/java-1_6_0-sun.spec
# mv java-1_6_0-sun.spec /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/java-1.6.0-sun.spec

Get latest Sun JDK from here or old release from here. Pick 32-bit linux (the only type I tested) get the linux non-RPM version. Put the downloaded '.bin' file to /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES

# mv jdk-6u14-linux-i586.bin /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/

Rebuild RPM

# rpmbuild -bb /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/java-1.6.0-sun.spec

Install packages

# yum localinstall /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i586/java-1.6.0-sun-*.rpm

Now, make sure that this new version of Java is set to be the default with:

# /usr/sbin/alternatives --config java