dependency issues with java-1.4.2-gcj-compat

[David T Farning]

I just got around to installing native eclipse on the devel branch and
have found what appears to be a dependency issues with
java-1.4.2-gcj-compat.

When running yum install eclips*  I got all sorts
of /usr/bin/rebuild-gcj-db: No such file or directory errors until I
manually installed java-1.4.2*

(I didn't keep a log cause I wasn't sure what was happening yet)


When attempting to yum remove eclipse*

I get the following

....
 Removing  : xerces-j2                    #######################
[ 1/65]
  Removing  : eclipse-jdt-devel            #######################
[ 2/65]
  Removing  : ant-nodeps                   #######################
[ 3/65]
  Removing  : eclipse-pydev                #######################
[ 4/65]
  Removing  : ant-apache-bcel              #######################
[ 5/65]
  Removing  : ldapjdk                      #######################
[ 6/65]
  Removing  : jakarta-commons-httpclient   #######################
[ 7/65]
  Removing  : ant-jsch                     #######################
[ 8/65]
  Removing  : ant-apache-resolver          #######################
[ 9/65]
  Removing  : ant-trax                     #######################
[10/65]
  Removing  : geronimo-specs-compat        #######################
[11/65]
  Removing  : xalan-j2                     #######################
[12/65]
  Removing  : mx4j                         #######################
[13/65]
  Removing  : eclipse-platform-devel       #######################
[14/65]
  Removing  : ant-jdepend                  #######################
[15/65]
  Removing  : jakarta-commons-collections  #######################
[16/65]
  Removing  : jakarta-commons-fileupload   #######################
[17/65]
  Removing  : java-1.4.2-gcj-compat        #######################
[18/65]
  Removing  : jakarta-commons-logging      #######################
[19/65]
/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.61501: line 1: /usr/bin/rebuild-gcj-db: No such file or
directory
error: %postun(jakarta-commons-logging-1.0.4-2jpp_6fc.i386) scriptlet
failed, exit status 127
  Removing  : eclipse-rcp-devel            #######################
[20/65]
  Removing  : jakarta-commons-dbcp         #######################
[21/65]
  Removing  : ant-javamail                 #######################
[22/65]

...

The /usr/bin/rebuild-gcj-db: No such file or directory error shows up
just after java-1.4.2-gcj-compat has been removed.

If I manually reinstall java-1.4.2-gcj-compat I can successfully remove
jakarta-commons-logging.

Should I look into this deeper and file a bug report?

-dtf

[Gary Benson]

David Farning wrote:
>  When running yum install eclips*  I got all sorts
>  of /usr/bin/rebuild-gcj-db: No such file or directory errors until I
>  manually installed java-1.4.2* 
It sounds like rpm is _still_ not ordering dependencies correctly.
There should be a bug open against rpm for this, but if not please
file one.

>  When attempting to yum remove eclipse* I get the following 
[snip]

This is a separate issue, namely that rpm does not implement erase
time dependency ordering.  Again, there should be a bug open against
rpm for this.

Cheers,
Gary

[Ian Pilcher]

Gary Benson wrote:
>  It sounds like rpm is _still_ not ordering dependencies correctly.
>  There should be a bug open against rpm for this, but if not please
>  file one. 
The problem may be that the dependencies are not specified at all.

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Ian Pilcher                                        i.pilcher(a)comcast.net
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[Gary Benson]

Ian Pilcher wrote:
>  Gary Benson wrote:
>  > It sounds like rpm is _still_ not ordering dependencies correctly.
>  > There should be a bug open against rpm for this, but if not please
>  > file one.
>  
>  The problem may be that the dependencies are not specified at all. 
If you find a package without them then please let me know.

Cheers,
Gary

[David Walluck]

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Gary Benson wrote:
>  David Farning wrote:
>  
> >When running yum install eclips*  I got all sorts
> >of /usr/bin/rebuild-gcj-db: No such file or directory errors until I
> >manually installed java-1.4.2* 
On Mandriva at least there seems to be a problem with
update-alternatives. No matter what I do I cannot get the creation of
the /usr/bin/rebuild-gcj-db symlink to happen, even though it is listed
as a slave. But I am not sure where the version of update-alternatives
comes from if it's not part of rpm. But I guess it is not the same as
debian update-alternatives 1.13.11 on Debian looking at the scripts.

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Sincerely,

David Walluck
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