[fedora-java] Re: Replacing FC4 Free Java with SUN's Java

[Nicolas Mailhot]

On Mer 27 juillet 2005 16:01, David Walluck wrote:
> Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net> wrote:
>
>> The problem is only with the compat- package
>>
>> The sun rpm declares it provides xml-commons but does not put a symlink
>> to
>> it in the right place so all the scripts that do a
>> build-classpath xml-commons
>> fail when yum removes the external xml-commons during the upgrade.
>
> Do you mean xml-commons or xml-commons-apis?

xml-commons-apis


> This sounds like a bug in the sun-compat package. If Sun claims to provide
> xml-commons but doesn't actually do so,

problem is sun jvm provides an implementation of xml-commons-apis but
- it's not exposed by a symlink (could be fixed in the compat-package)
- it's an internal implementation so either you require the external
xml-commons-api inconditionnaly, and people using Sun JVM have a package
installed on-system they don't really need, or you don't, and if you
install another jvm in parallel rpm will think xml-commons-apis is already
available, except only the sun jvm can use it

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot