[fedora-java] Building against java-1.5.0-gcj-devel instead of java-1.6.0-openjdk-devel

[Orion Poplawski]

On 12/30/2010 10:57 AM, Richard Fearn wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm building jcip-annotations for x86_64 rawhide using mock on my F14
> x86_64 laptop. The package BuildRequires java-devel>= 1.5.0 and
> java-1.6.0-openjdk-devel is being installed to satisfy that
> dependency.
>
> When requesting a scratch build, such as this one:
>
>    http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=2694190
>
> java-1.5.0-gcj-devel is installed instead. Anyone know why? I expected
> the latest version to be used for the Koji build.

I think it is because yum uses package name length in this case (for lack of 
any better information) to pick between java-1.5.0-gcj-devel and 
java-1.6.0-openjdk-devel.  They both satisfy java-devel >= 1.5.0 so in theory 
either should be fine.

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