[JPackage-discuss] [fedora-java] Oh Poo. JPackages has too many depenency problems and it's been over a week!

[Dan Thurman]

On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 10:54 -0700, Dan Thurman wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 10:40 -0700, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote:
> > On 4/10/06, Anthony Green <green % redhat.com> wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 11:47 -0700, Dan Thurman wrote:
> > > > What's the point of using JPackages if I cannot use it to update
> > > > Java components I need and want?
> > >
> > > I don't know.  We don't recommend using the JPackages repos directly.
> > 
> > This is of some concern to me also. We mostly use RHEL (FC for a little
> > testing) so it won't trickle down until RHEL5, but my understanding was
> > that Red Hat was adopting JPackage as the model for Java packages
> > in Fedora Core and Red Hat Enterprise. The official FC5 rpms even
> > have "jpp" in their names, for example ant-1.6.5-1jpp_7fc.i386.rpm .
> > Now, I understand that the "fc" also means that gjc-specific stuff is in
> > the rpm, but one advantage of JPackage is that you can easily switch
> > JVMs.
> > 
> > Are you saying that with Red Hat is going to maintain a set of separate
> > packages and if you ever want any JPackages beyond that set you
> > shouldn't be using RHEL or Fedora Core?
> > 
> > Dan: I don't know if you saw my earlier email, but you probably
> > just need to build your own stax-bea since it's non-free.
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> I don't care about 'stax-bea'!  This was added on later.  I
> added this to the --exclude list and then there was another
> dependency.  Add that, then another and the list seems long
> and I gave up after the 5th try because it was expanding into
> a hive of dependencies!
> 
> So - in a nutshell...  I cannot proceed with the simplest
> updates!  Again, you cannot enable fpackage-fc because it
> does not exists.  Someone wrote that its there for fc1-fc4
> but you are out of luck for fc5.  So - I disabled that and
> tried [generic] and now disabled that.  So - no updates are
> possible for me at this time.
> 
> Kind regards,
> Dan
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OK, This is what I have done so far:

1) Downloaded: dom4j-1.6.1-1jpp.rpm
   forced installed with no dependencies

2) Enabled jpackage repo [generic]
   yum update 
         --exclude=stax-bea-1.0-2jpp
         --exclude=castor\* 
         --exclude=geronimo-specs\*
 
Note: 1) In jpackage, there is both a bea-stax and stax-bea - confusing.
         Cannot install this package no matter what I tried to do.
      2) castor-depends is looking for: castor-0.9.6-2jpp and 
         it does not exist.
      3) Cannot overwrite fc5's geronimo-specs\*

All files are updated except those excluded above.

Cheers,
Dan