The single biggest source of pain that affects the freebsd.org cluster is openjdk-bootstrap. The openjdk bootstrap process is the most frequent source of missed or aborted cluster refreshes. I have been asking for help for about 12 months now, with increasing desperation for the last 6 months. ARM got a direct openjdk7 based bootstrap, the same needs to happen for i386 and amd64.
Fix Summary and assign.
Is there any news on this? Ping?
(In reply to Peter Wemm from comment #2) Sorry, I am extremely busy with real job ATM. Maybe August...
*** Bug 210894 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Do you have any advice to save me some time for doing it myself? Is there a document somewhere that shows how to build a bootstrap jdk tarball that I can look at?
There's a few hints here regarding cross-building java that give me something to go on. Is there a better source? https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/47016/
Is there any news about this PR? I strongly hope that java/openjdk8 supports direct installation without using java/openjdk7.
A commit references this bug: Author: jkim Date: Thu Sep 28 20:12:52 UTC 2017 New revision: 450868 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/450868 Log: Add bootstrap JDK for OpenJDK8. PR: 210283 PR: 221897 PR: 222460 Changes: head/java/Makefile head/java/bootstrap-openjdk8/ head/java/bootstrap-openjdk8/Makefile head/java/bootstrap-openjdk8/Makefile.update head/java/bootstrap-openjdk8/distinfo.amd64 head/java/bootstrap-openjdk8/distinfo.arm head/java/bootstrap-openjdk8/distinfo.i386 head/java/bootstrap-openjdk8/distinfo.powerpc64 head/java/bootstrap-openjdk8/pkg-message head/java/bootstrap-openjdk8/pkg-plist head/java/bootstrap-openjdk8/pkg-plist.arm
java/bootstrap-openjdk8 is now available. Thanks!