From upstream OpenJDK to RPMs on your machine
Over the past few years, I have been asked on and off as to what the process is for the RPMs that get into Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora repositories. Over those years, the answer has evolved as we attempt to better the process. As it stands right now, there is a difference between how OpenJDK6, OpenJDK7 and OpenJDK8 (preview in Fedora 19) end up into RPMs. This post will shed some light into what those processes are. OpenJDK6...