[fedora-java] osgi system bundle

[Andy Grimm]

On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 4:21 PM, Aleksandar Kurtakov
<akurtako at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Andy Grimm" <agrimm at gmail.com>
>> To: "java-devel" <java-devel at lists.fedoraproject.org>
>> Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2012 6:03:38 PM
>> Subject: [fedora-java] osgi system bundle
>>
>> Hi, all.  This morning I was dealing with a build issue related to
>> broken eclipse package, and it surprised me that eclipse was being
>> pulled into my buildroot for a random java package.  The root of this
>> is that osgi(system.bundle) is provided by eclipse-rcp, which
>> requires
>> eclipse-platform, and osgi(system.bundle) is now being required by
>> some fairly commonly used java packages:
>>
>> xalan-j2-0:2.7.1-13.fc18.noarch
>> xbean-0:3.11.1-3.fc18.noarch
>> xml-commons-apis-0:1.4.01-7.fc18.noarch
>> xml-commons-resolver-0:1.2-9.fc18.noarch
>>
>> In particular, xalan-j2 is required for pretty much the entire java
>> ecosystem, including ant, maven, groovy, various apache-commons
>> packages, etc.
>>
>> So what's the rationale for this?  Perhaps this is a bug? Maybe
>> something needs to be subpackaged differently?  The current state of
>> things seems a bit bloated to me.
>
> Well, these are bugs in the packages you mentioned. See http://wiki.osgi.org/wiki/System_Bundle for description what system.bundle is. There is no point in any bundle requiring system.bundle unless they call stuff from org.osgi.framework which neither xalan-j2 nor xml-commons do. Please open bug reports against the respective packages to fix their osgi manifests.

Ok, I can open the bugs, but I'm actually the owner of xalan-j2, so
that's just going to come right back to me. (and actually, somebody
just emailed xalan-j2-owners about it).  :-)  Could you help me
determine the correct way to get rid of this dep?

Thanks.

Andy


> TBH, we probably can move the system.bundle provide (it's manual) to eclipse-equinox-osgi. Chris, would you please take care of moving this provides.
>
> Regards,
> Alex
>
> Regards,
> Alex
>
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Andy
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