[fedora-java] Using jpackage 1.7 on Fedora 7

[Mary Ellen Foster]

If I enable jpackage 1.7 on a default install of Fedora 7 (with all
the Java-development stuff enabled) and try a "yum update", several
things fail. Here's the final output:

--> Running transaction check
---> Package xml-commons.noarch 0:1.3.03-10jpp set to be updated
---> Package geronimo-specs-poms.noarch 0:1.1-4jpp set to be updated
---> Package lucene.noarch 0:1.9.1-1jpp set to be updated
---> Package jdom.i386 0:1.0-4jpp.1 set to be updated
---> Package geronimo-specs.noarch 0:1.1-4jpp set to be updated
---> Package avalon-framework.i386 0:4.1.4-2jpp.14.fc7 set to be updated
---> Package juddi.noarch 0:0.9-0.rc4.2jpp set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: lucene = 1.4.3-1jpp.18 for package: lucene-devel
--> Processing Dependency: geronimo-specs = 1.0-0.M2.2jpp.12 for
package: geronimo-specs-compat
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Missing Dependency: /usr/bin/rebuild-security-providers is
needed by package java-1.5.0-gcj
Error: Missing Dependency: geronimo-specs = 1.0-0.M2.2jpp.12 is needed
by package geronimo-specs-compat
Error: Missing Dependency: lucene = 1.4.3-1jpp.18 is needed by package
lucene-devel

rebuild-security-providers is in the Fedora jpackage-utils and not the
JPackage one (and the Jpackage developers indicate that this is
possibly a bad judgement for the Fedora package);
geronimo-specs-compat is a dependency of
mysql-connector-java and, hence, jython and eclipse-pydev; while
Fedora lucene got split a while back into lucene and lucene-devel and
JPackage didn't follow suit.

I tried working around this a bit, but especially the jpackage-utils
dependency seems a bit annoying. (This may have to do with the
current SRPM-as-noarch-RPM problem in the JPackage repository
that means you need to --exclude things twice to get them
really excluded.)

Is the jpackage-utils thing something I should bugzilla at redhat?
Should we worry about the rest of this?

MEF

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Mary Ellen Foster
http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/mef/


-- 
Mary Ellen Foster
http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/mef/