http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=927365
http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=927365#c5
--- Comment #5 from Wolfgang Bauer
I know well that Oracle provides the rpms. However they are primarily provided for RedHat. I doubt that Oracle will consider any SUSE specialities, although I do not know. If they do consider, it would certainly be better if a SUSE official or contact person performs the cooperation.
Hm, I cannot help there. But you filed this bug report against _openSUSE_ and its Java packages. That's why I think it's invalid.
I know this hack (under warning), and used it more than twice. However, this is no satisfing and no clean solution. You get many error messages from update-alternatives. And it is not clear (at least not to me) whether these are harmful.
Again, this would need to be fixed in Oracle's package IMHO. openSUSE's update-alternatives cannot provide /usr/sbin/alternatives I think, as it doesn't contain it. The binary is called /usr/sbin/update-alternatives in openSUSE, the same as in Debian.
A clean and cooperative solution could be to provide the link from update-alteratives to alternatives already by the SUSE rpm of update-alternatives. Also it could additionally provide "alternatives" for compatibility. This is only a string.
I disagree with the latter, see above. And it probably wouldn't help really (if the Oracle package does call /usr/sbin/alternatives). The update-alternative package probably could indeed contain a symlink /usr/sbin/alternatives (which would also satisfy the dependency), but the question is whether Fedora's /usr/sbin/alternatives is compatible to update-alternatives... (I have no idea)
Using the Oracle JDK ist not something uncommon.
Well, personally I never had the need to since it got replaced by openJDK. But that's of course not a reason to consider this bug report as invalid. ;-) (In reply to Christian Bachmaier from comment #4)
For reasons above, I have opened the bug again. Hope this is ok.
Fine with me. But I'm no maintainer of either Java nor update-alternatives. I'm going to reassign it though, as this is definitely no problem of openSUSE's Java packages. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.