java-1.4.2-gcj-compat uninstalls sun jre

Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net
Wed Apr 27 07:58:02 UTC 2005


On Mer 27 avril 2005 5:00, djh a écrit :
> Warren Togami wrote:
>
>> Does java-1.4.2-gcj-compat *really* need the Provides: jre stuff?
>>
>> We really can't ship FC4 in such a way that Sun's jre (which is
>> feature complete today) is uninstalled seemingly without warning when
>> gcj is not complete yet.
>
>
> It's not just the Provides: jre causing the problem.  The Sun JDK/JRE
> rpms have a Provides: xml-commons-apis.  Upgrading the Fedora
> xml-commons-apis rpm uninstalls the Sun rpms too.

All the various jvm packages need to have more or less the same provides
or you can't switch them at will.

The problem with Sun packages is they never tried to work with anyone to
make sure their stuff works (for example they added the xml-commons
provides without putting the associated jar in a place our scripts can
find it, so not installing a separate commons implementation will get you
errors at tomcat startup)

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot




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