On Fri, 2008-06-13 at 10:02 -0400, Benjamin Reed wrote:
Andrew Overholt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 17:05 -0400, Benjamin Reed wrote:
>> Would it be possible to add compatible provides to the openjdk -devel
>> package?
>> [...]
>> Unfortunately, there are no provides that are the same across OpenJDK
>> and Sun's Java:
>
> You mean the Sun-distributed RPM, right? I've heard many complaints
> over the years about issues with it but it doesn't seem that it's going
> to change any time soon. If I had to guess, I'd say the OpenJDK
> packages provide the same things as the JPackage Sun, etc. nosrc RPMs.
>
> Tom can clarify since he maintains the OpenJDK packages.
Right, but since you do have control over the OpenJDK rpms, adding a
"Provides: jdk = 1.6.0" would help.
Sorry, I didn't mean to imply this wasn't possible. I'd still like to
hear from Tom about this, though.
Andrew