Fedora 21 Mass rebuild update

Omair Majid omajid at redhat.com
Thu Jun 12 00:02:40 UTC 2014


* Adam Jackson <ajax at redhat.com> [2014-06-09 12:01]:
> In the xorg-x11-docs case it's explicitly BuildRequires:
> java-1.7.0-openjdk;

Okay. Please don't do that. Use java-devel. Otherwise, this will break
on future updates to Java 8, 9 an later ones.

> changing it to plain java-devel actually fixes the
> build, presumably because either 1.7.0 no longer provides that or yum
> just decides it likes 1.8.0 better.

java-1.8.0-openjdk provides the highest-versioned 'java-devel' (1:1.8.0,
compared with java-1.7.0's 1:1.7.0).

Thanks,
Omair

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