Re: java-1.4.2-gcj-compat uninstalls sun jre

[Jeff Spaleta <jspaleta gmail com>]

On 4/24/05, Jeff Spaleta <jspaleta gmail com> wrote:
> I can't get the uninstall of jre behavior to happen with an install of
> java-1.4.2-gcj-compat via rpm or yum. And since i dont have a local
> cache of an older versions of java-1.4.2-gcj-compat I can't test the
> update scenario which was originally commented on.

great... that was fun... i could not reproduce the behavior as seen by
the original reporter even using yum update.

Here's my setup:
*Start with Sun's jre-1.5.0_02-fcs package installed
*install  the older java-1.4.2-gcj-compat-1.4.2.0-40jpp_16rh.i386.rpm
using rpm -i  or yum install, my jre package was not removed. Note you
have to install the jessie package from development as well.
*run yum update to update to 
java-1.4.2-gcj-compat-1.4.2.0-40jpp_18rh, my jre is not removed.
*or rpm -U to java-1.4.2-gcj-compat-1.4.2.0-40jpp_18rh, my jre is not removed

On my rawhide system I have tested rpm -i, yum install, rpm -U and yum
update on
java-1.4.2-gcj-compat packages. I even did rpm -U --oldpackage.
Specically working with:
java-1.4.2-gcj-compat-1.4.2.0-40jpp_16rh.i386.rpm
java-1.4.2-gcj-compat-1.4.2.0-40jpp_18rh.i386.rpm
and jessie-1.0.0-5.noarch.rpm
when doing these operations.

I can not reproduce the removal of Sun's latest rpm package 
jre-1.5.0_02-fcs on my x86 rawhide system in any scenario.  Anyone who
can reproduce this is going to have to provide some verbose output
from rpm and yum.


-jef