F22 System Wide Change: Legacy implementations of the Java platform in Fedora

Jiri Vanek jvanek at redhat.com
Tue Feb 24 12:54:03 UTC 2015


On 02/24/2015 01:34 PM, Severin Gehwolf wrote:
> On Tue, 2015-02-24 at 12:43 +0100, Mikolaj Izdebski wrote:
> [...]
>>> ==== option one - introducing new packages - preferred ====
>>> 1. main jdk is proclaimed as dead as it was until now.  The new jdk is derived
>>> as new package prviousName-legacy
>>
>> Fedora already supports multiple JDKs installable in parallel. This was
>> inherited from JPackage project. This breaks long-established rule of
>> naming JDK packages as "java-x.y.z-vendor" used across different
>> distributions (JPackage, Fedora, RHEL, SUSE, ...)
> [...]
>
> The idea behind this "-legacy" suffix was to ensure a reasonable upgrade
> path for people *only* using default java-x.y.z-openjdk package.
>
> Consider the following scenario (all hypothetical, not saying that any
> Fedora releases and JDK releases align in this way):
>
> F22 has default JDK of java-1.8.0-openjdk. Then, F23 will get
> java-1.9.0-openjdk as default and F24 java-1.10.0-openjdk as default.
> The upgrade from F22 => F23 will install java-1.9.0-openjdk and remove
> java-1.8.0-openjdk. Similarly, the upgrade from F23 to F24 will install
> java-1.10.0-openjdk and remove java-1.9.0-openjdk. This is to ensure
> that no old JDKs stick around on the majority of Fedora systems.
>
> If the name was kept there does not seem to be a good way to:
> 1.) Ensure dist upgrades update JDK packages
> 2.) Ensure dist upgrades remove old JDK package (which may no longer
>      get security updates).
>
> Do you see a way to achieve this without a name change of the package?
>

Unluckily, I'm not.

But I guess, this question is going to Mikolaj.


J.





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