Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (770 mails)

[Philippe Andersson <pan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 22/08/12 09:22, Lars Müller wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 01:18:21AM +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> > As we know, openSUSE no longer provides updates for Java from Sun. We can 
> > install the JRE rpm from
> > them, and remove the java-1_6 rpm, because JRE is an update of that one - 
> > but yast does not
> > recognizes it as an update, and wants to install icetea-web. I had to taboo 
> > it. Then yast insisted
> > and tried to install java-1_6_0_opnjdk. Again I said no and tabooed it. Then 
> > Yast insisted and
> > wanted to install gcc-ijj - more or less in that order. I also tabooed it.
> >
> > Then YaST got mad at me and wanted to remove openoffice, and I told it to 
> > &&%%·$ itself and break
> > dependencies.
> >
> >
> > Is there some other way to make yast happy and recognize that Java IS indeed 
> > installed in the
> > system? Perhaps a false java rpm with false provides?
> >
> > Do we need a bugzilla for this?
>
> Yes.  As not all package maintainers follow this list.
>
> Please file one and be this nice to report the issue ID as a clickable
> URL back to this thread.
Just a suggestion: instead of an empty "placeholder" package, why not a
script that would download the JRE or JDK from Oracle, like its done for
MS TTF with "fetchmsttfonts" ?

Ph. A.

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