IcedTea replaced with OpenJDK in rawhide - requires manual removal

Greg spowd at bigpond.com
Sat Mar 15 23:18:13 UTC 2008


Chris Adams wrote:
> Once upon a time, Will Woods <wwoods at redhat.com> said:
>   
>> [1] Normally this is handled by increasing the Epoch (if the packages
>> have the same name) or adding an Obsoletes: (if they don't). 
>> In this case, the packages have different names (technically
>> "java-1.7.0-icedtea" is the name of the package, not "java") and we
>> don't really want to force the OpenJDK to replace IcedTea in *all* cases
>> where it's installed on someone's system.
>>     
>
> How will that be handled for F8->F9 upgrades?
>   
will this be the default in Fedora 9?




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