Oh Poo. JPackages has too many depenency problems and it's been over a week!

[Dan Thurman]

Folks,

I have enabled Jpackage generic repo, ran it, it fails with
dependency errors, disabled it again, over and over for over
a week and the damn thing still does not work at all.  Heck,
the Jpackage FC repo does not even exists.

What's the point of using JPackages if I cannot use it to update
Java components I need and want?

Can anyone tell me what is going on and why this mailing list is
one of the slowest crawling slugs I have seen - ever - ?????

Did Java interest die here or what?

HELLO?  (echo: Hello, hello, hell, hel, he, h, ..... <silence>)

At this time, jpackage repo is disabled.

BTW: I tried to exclude the packages one-by-one and I realized the
list kept getting bigger and bigger so I gave up.  It is much
worst than I thought.  Following is the results....

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> yum update
> Loading "installonlyn" plugin
> Setting up Update Process
> Setting up repositories
> macromedia                                                           [1/5]
> core                                                                 [2/5]
> updates                                                              [3/5]
> jpackage-generic                                                     [4/5]
> extras                                                               [5/5]
> Reading repository metadata in from local files
> Resolving Dependencies
> --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
> ---> Downloading header for xml-commons-apis-javadoc to pack into transaction set.
> xml-commons-apis-javadoc- 100% |=========================|  42 kB    00:01
> ---> Package xml-commons-apis-javadoc.noarch 0:1.3.02-2jpp set to be updated
> ---> Downloading header for cryptix to pack into transaction set.
> cryptix-3.2.0-5jpp.noarch 100% |=========================| 2.5 kB    00:00
> ---> Package cryptix.noarch 0:3.2.0-5jpp set to be updated
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> classpathx-mail-javadoc-1 100% |=========================|  38 kB    00:00
> ---> Package classpathx-mail-javadoc.noarch 0:1.1-1jpp set to be updated
> ---> Downloading header for junit to pack into transaction set.
> junit-3.8.1-4jpp.noarch.r 100% |=========================| 3.7 kB    00:00
> ---> Package junit.noarch 0:3.8.1-4jpp set to be updated
> ---> Downloading header for xml-commons to pack into transaction set.
> xml-commons-1.3.02-2jpp.n 100% |=========================| 3.6 kB    00:00
> ---> Package xml-commons.noarch 0:1.3.02-2jpp set to be updated
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> cryptix-asn1-javadoc-2001 100% |=========================| 8.6 kB    00:00
> ---> Package cryptix-asn1-javadoc.noarch 0:20011119-5jpp set to be updated
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> jdom-1.0-2jpp.noarch.rpm  100% |=========================| 4.6 kB    00:00
> ---> Package jdom.noarch 0:1.0-2jpp set to be updated
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> avalon-framework-manual-4 100% |=========================|  18 kB    00:00
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> adaptx-0.9.6-2jpp.noarch. 100% |=========================| 2.6 kB    00:00
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> junit-demo-3.8.1-4jpp.noa 100% |=========================|  18 kB    00:00
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> ---> Package mach.i386 0:0.4.9-1.fc5 set to be updated
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> antlr-2.7.6-1jpp.noarch.r 100% |=========================| 5.3 kB    00:00
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> jdepend-demo-2.6-3jpp.noa 100% |=========================| 4.9 kB    00:00
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> jlex-javadoc-1.2.6-2jpp.n 100% |=========================| 4.6 kB    00:00
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> castor-test-0.9.6-1jpp.no 100% |=========================| 2.3 kB    00:00
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> jsch-0.1.20-1jpp.noarch.r 100% |=========================| 2.6 kB    00:00
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> jzlib-1.0.7-1jpp.noarch.r 100% |=========================| 2.6 kB    00:00
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> oro-2.0.8-2jpp.noarch.rpm 100% |=========================| 5.0 kB    00:00
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> cryptix-javadoc-3.2.0-5jp 100% |=========================|  30 kB    00:00
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> concurrent-javadoc-1.3.4- 100% |=========================|  21 kB    00:00
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> bsf-2.3.0-8jpp.noarch.rpm 100% |=========================| 5.0 kB    00:00
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> bcel-5.1-5jpp.noarch.rpm  100% |=========================| 4.4 kB    00:00
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> xml-commons-apis-1.3.02-2 100% |=========================| 3.3 kB    00:00
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> jlex-1.2.6-2jpp.noarch.rp 100% |=========================| 2.6 kB    00:00
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> log4j-javadoc-1.2.12-1jpp 100% |=========================|  56 kB    00:01
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> xalan-j2-xsltc-2.7.0-1jpp 100% |=========================| 6.9 kB    00:00
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> avalon-framework-javadoc- 100% |=========================|  28 kB    00:00
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> cryptix-asn1-20011119-5jp 100% |=========================| 2.5 kB    00:00
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> bsh-1.3.0-6jpp.noarch.rpm 100% |=========================| 4.8 kB    00:00
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> xalan-j2-javadoc-2.7.0-1j 100% |=========================| 212 kB    00:05
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> jakarta-commons-lang-java 100% |=========================|  31 kB    00:00
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> xml-commons-resolver-1.1- 100% |=========================| 3.4 kB    00:00
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> xalan-j2-manual-2.7.0-1jp 100% |=========================| 7.0 kB    00:00
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> jakarta-commons-lang-2.1- 100% |=========================| 4.7 kB    00:00
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> antlr-javadoc-2.7.6-1jpp. 100% |=========================|  79 kB    00:02
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> log4j-manual-1.2.12-1jpp. 100% |=========================|  23 kB    00:00
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> --> Processing Dependency: cglib for package: castor
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> --> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes.
> --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
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> ---> Package relaxngDatatype.noarch 0:1.0-2jpp set to be updated
> ---> Downloading header for isorelax to pack into transaction set.
> isorelax-0.1-0.20041111.1 100% |=========================| 2.8 kB    00:00
> ---> Package isorelax.noarch 0:0.1-0.20041111.1jpp set to be updated
> --> Running transaction check
> --> Processing Dependency: castor = 0:0.9.5-2jpp for package: castor-demo
> --> Processing Dependency: stax-bea for package: dom4j
> --> Processing Dependency: geronimo-specs = 1.0-0.M2.2jpp_7fc for package: geronimo-specs-compat
> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> Error: Missing Dependency: geronimo-specs = 1.0-0.M2.2jpp_7fc is needed by package geronimo-specs-compat
> Error: Missing Dependency: castor = 0:0.9.5-2jpp is needed by package castor-demo
> Error: Missing Dependency: stax-bea is needed by package dom4j
> [root@copper ~]#

====================================================================

Note: 1.0-0.M2.2jpp_7fc is installed on my machine currently....

Dan

[Weiqi Gao]

On 4/9/06, Dan Thurman  wrote:
> I have enabled Jpackage generic repo, ran it, it fails with
> dependency errors, disabled it again, over and over for over
> a week and the damn thing still does not work at all.  Heck,
> the Jpackage FC repo does not even exists.

Back in the FC3 days, I was able to get all of JPackage installed on
my machine (except for NetBeans and Maven) by not installing the Java
packages from FC3 and following the instructions on JPackage.org's web
site.  I have to use two yum repositories from JPackage.org:
[jpackage16-generic] and [jpackage16-fc3].  The hardest part is to
hand install all the dependent non-free rpms.  I have a couple of
write ups here:

http://www.weiqigao.com/blog/2004/11/23/an_introduction_to_jpackage_org.html

http://www.weiqigao.com/blog/2004/12/05/what_jpackage_org_brought_to_my_comp...

Starting with FC4, and now FC5, I simply installed the Java packages
from the distribution and never got around to use JPackage.org again.
> What's the point of using JPackages if I cannot use it to update
> Java components I need and want?

My understanding is that to use JPackage.org's rpms, you have to use
both the generic repository and a platform specific repository.  I
just browsed over there, and saw repos for fc1 through fc4.  So I
guess for the moment, if you are on FC5, you are out of luck.  If you
are on FC1 through FC4, you should be able to make use of
JPackage.org.

The FC5 release notes also warns about potential problems if you mix
FC5's Java packages and JPackages.org's Java packages.  So be careful.
> Can anyone tell me what is going on and why this mailing list is
> one of the slowest crawling slugs I have seen - ever - ?????

The list is alive.  I see posts from time to time.
> Did Java interest die here or what?

Not from my side.

--
Weiqi Gao (高为奇)
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http://www.weiqigao.com/blog/

[Anthony Green]

On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 11:47 -0700, Dan Thurman wrote:
> What's the point of using JPackages if I cannot use it to update
> Java components I need and want?

I don't know.  We don't recommend using the JPackages repos directly.

AG

[Dan Thurman]

On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 10:50 -0400, Anthony Green wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 11:47 -0700, Dan Thurman wrote:
> > What's the point of using JPackages if I cannot use it to update
> > Java components I need and want?
>
> I don't know.  We don't recommend using the JPackages repos directly.
>
> AG

I thought I read somewhere that you can add jpackage repo as long
as you enable the jpackage-fc5 repo which does not exist!

Please tell me what I need to do to keep up to date with java
packages.  I *thought* via jpackages I would get all the wonderful
stuff as in FC4 but apparently FC5 has made a "clean break" from
JPackages group?  Is this what you are saying?

Kind regards,
Dan

[Anthony Green]

On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 10:11 -0700, Dan Thurman wrote:
> Please tell me what I need to do to keep up to date with java
> packages.

It depends what packages you're interested in.  If you're talking about
packages provided in FC/FE, then just yum and you're done.

If you're talking about other packages, then I recommend helping port
them to Fedora.
> I *thought* via jpackages I would get all the wonderful
> stuff as in FC4 but apparently FC5 has made a "clean break" from
> JPackages group?  Is this what you are saying?

JPackage packages many useful programs we feel should be part of the
core OS (or Extras).  There are two main problems with JPackage usage
right now:

1. Dependencies on non-free packages.  I believe the JPackage team is
working to fix this.  I'm not sure what the latest status is.

2. Inability to build (and run) with Free software.  We need to be able
to build everything in FC/FE with Free Software.  Unfortunately, many
JPackaged packages cannot be built with Free Software.  This used to be
because our Free tools and libraries weren't mature, but now mostly it
seems due to the Java Trap.  Unfortunately, many packages depend on
proprietary extensions to the Java platform (sun.*, com.sun.*, etc).
The good news is that upstream projects are slowly cleaning up their
act.  Batik recently removed sun.*/com.sun.* uses so it can be built
with Free software.  But, due to the high degree of interdependency
between Java packages, all we need is one bad package to prevent us from
building many others.

AG

[Joshua Daniel Franklin]

On 4/10/06, Anthony Green <green % redhat.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 11:47 -0700, Dan Thurman wrote:
> > What's the point of using JPackages if I cannot use it to update
> > Java components I need and want?
>
> I don't know.  We don't recommend using the JPackages repos directly.

This is of some concern to me also. We mostly use RHEL (FC for a little
testing) so it won't trickle down until RHEL5, but my understanding was
that Red Hat was adopting JPackage as the model for Java packages
in Fedora Core and Red Hat Enterprise. The official FC5 rpms even
have "jpp" in their names, for example ant-1.6.5-1jpp_7fc.i386.rpm .
Now, I understand that the "fc" also means that gjc-specific stuff is in
the rpm, but one advantage of JPackage is that you can easily switch
JVMs.

Are you saying that with Red Hat is going to maintain a set of separate
packages and if you ever want any JPackages beyond that set you
shouldn't be using RHEL or Fedora Core?

Dan: I don't know if you saw my earlier email, but you probably
just need to build your own stax-bea since it's non-free.

[JPackage-discuss] Oh Poo. JPackages has too many depenency problems and it's been over a week!

[Dan Thurman]

On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 10:40 -0700, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote:
> On 4/10/06, Anthony Green <green % redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 11:47 -0700, Dan Thurman wrote:
> > > What's the point of using JPackages if I cannot use it to update
> > > Java components I need and want?
> >
> > I don't know.  We don't recommend using the JPackages repos directly.
>
> This is of some concern to me also. We mostly use RHEL (FC for a little
> testing) so it won't trickle down until RHEL5, but my understanding was
> that Red Hat was adopting JPackage as the model for Java packages
> in Fedora Core and Red Hat Enterprise. The official FC5 rpms even
> have "jpp" in their names, for example ant-1.6.5-1jpp_7fc.i386.rpm .
> Now, I understand that the "fc" also means that gjc-specific stuff is in
> the rpm, but one advantage of JPackage is that you can easily switch
> JVMs.
>
> Are you saying that with Red Hat is going to maintain a set of separate
> packages and if you ever want any JPackages beyond that set you
> shouldn't be using RHEL or Fedora Core?
>
> Dan: I don't know if you saw my earlier email, but you probably
> just need to build your own stax-bea since it's non-free.
> _______________________________________________
> JPackage-discuss mailing list
> [e-mail]
> https://www.zarb.org/mailman/listinfo/jpackage-discuss

I don't care about 'stax-bea'!  This was added on later.  I
added this to the --exclude list and then there was another
dependency.  Add that, then another and the list seems long
and I gave up after the 5th try because it was expanding into
a hive of dependencies!

So - in a nutshell...  I cannot proceed with the simplest
updates!  Again, you cannot enable fpackage-fc because it
does not exists.  Someone wrote that its there for fc1-fc4
but you are out of luck for fc5.  So - I disabled that and
tried [generic] and now disabled that.  So - no updates are
possible for me at this time.

Kind regards,
Dan

[JPackage-discuss] Oh Poo. JPackages has too many depenency problems and it's been over a week!

[Dan Thurman]

On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 10:54 -0700, Dan Thurman wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 10:40 -0700, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote:
> > On 4/10/06, Anthony Green <green % redhat.com> wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 11:47 -0700, Dan Thurman wrote:
> > > > What's the point of using JPackages if I cannot use it to update
> > > > Java components I need and want?
> > >
> > > I don't know.  We don't recommend using the JPackages repos directly.
> >
> > This is of some concern to me also. We mostly use RHEL (FC for a little
> > testing) so it won't trickle down until RHEL5, but my understanding was
> > that Red Hat was adopting JPackage as the model for Java packages
> > in Fedora Core and Red Hat Enterprise. The official FC5 rpms even
> > have "jpp" in their names, for example ant-1.6.5-1jpp_7fc.i386.rpm .
> > Now, I understand that the "fc" also means that gjc-specific stuff is in
> > the rpm, but one advantage of JPackage is that you can easily switch
> > JVMs.
> >
> > Are you saying that with Red Hat is going to maintain a set of separate
> > packages and if you ever want any JPackages beyond that set you
> > shouldn't be using RHEL or Fedora Core?
> >
> > Dan: I don't know if you saw my earlier email, but you probably
> > just need to build your own stax-bea since it's non-free.
> > _______________________________________________
> > JPackage-discuss mailing list
> > [e-mail]
> > https://www.zarb.org/mailman/listinfo/jpackage-discuss
>
> I don't care about 'stax-bea'!  This was added on later.  I
> added this to the --exclude list and then there was another
> dependency.  Add that, then another and the list seems long
> and I gave up after the 5th try because it was expanding into
> a hive of dependencies!
>
> So - in a nutshell...  I cannot proceed with the simplest
> updates!  Again, you cannot enable fpackage-fc because it
> does not exists.  Someone wrote that its there for fc1-fc4
> but you are out of luck for fc5.  So - I disabled that and
> tried [generic] and now disabled that.  So - no updates are
> possible for me at this time.
>
> Kind regards,
> Dan
> _______________________________________________
> JPackage-discuss mailing list
> [e-mail]
> https://www.zarb.org/mailman/listinfo/jpackage-discuss

OK, This is what I have done so far:

1) Downloaded: dom4j-1.6.1-1jpp.rpm
   forced installed with no dependencies

2) Enabled jpackage repo [generic]
   yum update 
         --exclude=stax-bea-1.0-2jpp
         --exclude=castor* 
         --exclude=geronimo-specs*

Note: 1) In jpackage, there is both a bea-stax and stax-bea - confusing.
         Cannot install this package no matter what I tried to do.
      2) castor-depends is looking for: castor-0.9.6-2jpp and 
         it does not exist.
      3) Cannot overwrite fc5's geronimo-specs*

All files are updated except those excluded above.

Cheers,
Dan

[Chris Hubick]

On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 11:47 -0700, Dan Thurman wrote:
> Error: Missing Dependency: stax-bea is needed by package dom4j

Just download the dom4j RPM and install it manually without stax-bea...

First attempt to install the package normally using "rpm -ivf", which
will fail because of some list of missing dependencies including
stax-bea... then use "yum install" on all the listed dependencies except
stax-bea, then finally install the dom4j rpm using "rpm --force --nodeps
-ivf" or whatever.  You should then be able to continue using yum to
install whatever else you want normally.

[Dan Thurman]

On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 12:33 -0600, Chris Hubick wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 11:47 -0700, Dan Thurman wrote:
> > Error: Missing Dependency: stax-bea is needed by package dom4j
>
> Just download the dom4j RPM and install it manually without stax-bea...
>
> First attempt to install the package normally using "rpm -ivf", which
> will fail because of some list of missing dependencies including
> stax-bea... then use "yum install" on all the listed dependencies except
> stax-bea, then finally install the dom4j rpm using "rpm --force --nodeps
> -ivf" or whatever.  You should then be able to continue using yum to
> install whatever else you want normally.

Oh wow.  stax-bea does not exist in jpackage bit bea-stax does!

What is the difference?

Kind regards,
Dan