[fedora-java] Re: postgresl-jdbc incompatible w/ Fedora Core

[Ian Pilcher]

Ville Skyttä wrote:
> IMO that would be too much dictating local policies from our part, and
> subject to inherent distributed bitrot because folks usually download
> jpackage.repo only once.  And I'm sure this stuff would not be limited
> to postgresql-jdbc.

I don't understand your argument.  Are you saying that the file can
never be changed?  Probably, it should be put into it's own package
in the Fedora repos.

There's a larger question here.  What is the "co-existence strategy"
for JPackage and Fedora Core?  I'm trying to figure out how to set up
a Java development/Tomcat server environment on FC4, and I'm very
unsure how to set things up so that yum doesn't eventually leave me with
an incompatible mishmash of JPackage (Java) and Fedora (gcj) packages.

> Maybe the FC postgresql-jdbc package could have a versioned Provides:
> using the full version number (including the build) of the drivers it
> contains, like the corresponding JPP one has in its version field?
> Would that work the way you'd expect?  (What would you expect, BTW?)

Getting the Fedora postgresql-jdbc package to somehow reflect the
version of the driver would be a good start.  I'm not sure how to do
this, though.  I haven't had great luck getting responses to bugs that
I put into Red Hat's bugzilla, let alone RFEs.

There's also the fact that the Fedora package contains multiple builds
of the driver, for use with multiple JVM versions; the JPackage package
only contains a single build (JDBC 3?).  So even if the JPackage RPM
were updated to a later driver version, there's a case for not replacing
the Fedora package.

Out of curiosity, what distributions *don't* include the PostgreSQL
JDBC drivers?  (I.e. why does the JPackage RPM exist?)

Thanks!

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Ian Pilcher                                        i.pilcher at comcast.net
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