Bug 2150203

Summary: Repackage portable build rather than building a new JDK [rhel-8, openjdk-8]
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Reporter: Andrew John Hughes <ahughes>
Component: java-1.8.0-openjdkAssignee: Andrew John Hughes <ahughes>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: OpenJDK QA <java-qa>
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Version: ---CC: jandrlik, jvanek, pmikova
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Fixed In Version: java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.372.b07-4.el8 Doc Type: Enhancement
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: 2189328 (view as bug list) Environment:
Last Closed: 2023-07-17 18:46:18 UTC Type: Bug
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Deadline: 2023-02-27   

Description Andrew John Hughes 2022-12-02 03:14:33 UTC 
Producing a new build of the JDK for each minor version of RHEL introduces a lot of overhead in development time (porting between branches), build time and testing.

Instead of creating an entirely new build for each minor version, we intend to make the RHEL RPM depend on the portable build (java-1.8.0-openjdk-portable*), with the build stage being replaced by the extraction of the portable build tarball. The later stages of the RPM build process will then proceed as before, as if the build had been created within that build.