[fedora-java] Moving aot-compile-rpm and rebuild-gcj-db out of java-gcj-compat

Gary Benson gbenson at redhat.com
Fri Nov 11 08:38:43 UTC 2005


Thomas Fitzsimmons wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-11-10 at 09:57 +0000, Gary Benson wrote:
> > Bryce McKinlay wrote:
> > > If needed for compatibility reasons, rebuild-gcj-db could be
> > > made to call "gcj-db --rebuild".
> > 
> > There would have to be a %{_bindir}/rebuild-gcj-db in whatever
> > provides gcj-db as without it none of the existing rpms could be
> > uninstalled or upgraded.
> 
> With rebuild-gcj-db as an alternative I'm not sure this is even
> possible now (especially if gcj is not the currently-selected
> alternative).  I think we can get away with "breaking backwards
> compatibility" here in the interest of not maintaining a
> "rebuild-gcj-db" script indefinitely.

It doesn't have to be indefinite, but it will have to be there for
FC5 and probably FC6 at least: without it upgrades from FC4 will fail
and releng will kick our ass.

Gary




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