[fedora-java] Saner Java packaging

[Gary Benson]

Andrew Haley wrote:
> On 03/09/2010 12:53 PM, Matthias Klose wrote:
> > On 05.03.2010 17:31, Alexander Kurtakov wrote:
> > > Time to bring GCJ support discussion back.
> > > We should find a way to not install java-1.5.0-gcj on every
> > > users computers.  There are packages that do not work with it
> > > and it's plain wrong to install it as a dependency of this
> > > packages which are explicitly requiring java 1.6.0.
> > > Possible solutions:
> > >   * Solution 1 - someone who cares for the gcj stack finds a way
> > >     to not require java-1.5.0-gcj when there are gcj bits in the
> > >     package so we do not force gcj installation on every user.
> 
> That shouldn't be too difficult.  I'm looking at jakarta-oro now: I
> removed the
> 
> --- jakarta-oro.spec~   2009-07-26 13:52:21.000000000 +0100
> +++ jakarta-oro.spec    2010-03-09 13:24:34.445414981 +0000
> @@ -59,8 +59,6 @@
>  
>  %if %{gcj_support}
>  BuildRequires:         java-gcj-compat-devel
> -Requires(post):                java-gcj-compat
> -Requires(postun):      java-gcj-compat
>  %endif
>  
>  %description
> 
> and it's fine.  There's no need AFAICS for a Requires: on java-gcj-compat.

If it uses rebuild-gcj-db in its %post and %postun scripts then it
needs those dependencies.  You would perhaps be better off undefining
gcj_support but leaving them in place.

Cheers,
Gary

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