[fedora-java] dependency issues with java-1.4.2-gcj-compat

[David Walluck]

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Thomas Fitzsimmons wrote:

>>The post and postun problems I am having seem to be because
>> /usr/bin/rebuild-gcj-db can not be found during post and postun.  If
>>Requires: java-gcj-compat >= 1.0.31 is used, whenever
>> the post or postun is taking place, rebuild-gcj-db will be present.
> 
> 
> I just changed rebuild-gcj-db to be an alternative symlink.  Therefore
> RPM wouldn't know about it.  Might that be the problem?

Is it even correct to have rebuild-gcj-db as an alternative? This file
must exist always (even when not running gcj). Since the link is a slave
to java, if the java alternative is changed (say, to a Sun 1.5.0 jvm),
then I assume that this link will get lost? Or is that not true since
gcj is the only one providing it?

In any case, I have a similar problem of this link not being set up. And
maybe since the Requires(post) is on the java-gcj-compat package and not
%{_bindir}/rebuild-gcj-db itself, maybe rpm is not catching it.

Also, I think there's a packaging problem with java-gcj-compat not
owning a lot of symlinks it creates. As I understand it, we can't own
alternatives symlinks since this can cause conflicts between packages
(yet why does rpm allow multiple owners of directories?). But there are
other links created in post that probably could be %ghost'ed (the
internal ones which link to libgcj.jar).

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Sincerely,

David Walluck
<david at zarb.org>
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