OpenJDK packaging bug in Fedora 19

Tom Horsley horsley1953 at gmail.com
Thu Jul 11 18:20:44 UTC 2013


On Thu, 11 Jul 2013 12:54:36 -0500
Rex Dieter wrote:

> >  $ rpm -qf `which java`
> >  file /usr/bin/java is not owned by any package
> > 
> > to be very frustrating.  
> 
> Ditto.  I've been meaning to write a packaging draft to the alternatives 
> guidelines to enforce the idea that packages MUST own their 'alternatives' 
> targets

But how can multiple packages trade ownership of the same file?

Maybe rpm -qf should follow symlinks to find the "real" file?


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