[fedora-java] Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

[Mat Booth]

2010/1/15 Mary Ellen Foster <mefoster at gmail.com>:
> 2010/1/15 Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch at dell.com>:
>> Removing geronimo-specs removes these:
>> geronimo-specs-compat-0:1.0-2.M2.fc10.x86_64
>
> Eek! I think geronimo-specs-compat is (transitively) needed by a bunch
> of other Java packages including maven; on my computer, "yum remove
> geronimo-specs" attempts to remove 45 packages (mostly maven-*). The
> issue is that geronimo-specs-compat has a bunch of virtual provides
> which don't show up in repoquery.
>
> For reference, repoquery --whatrequires --recursive jms jacc jta ejb |
> wc -l returns 112 on my computer (F12, x86_64).
>
> MEF
>

You can use:

$ repoquery --whatrequires --alldeps geronimo-specs-compat

To catch all the virtual provides.


-- 
Mat Booth