java-1.4.2-gcj-compat uninstalls sun jre

[David Farning]

Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
  > That's already basically what the jpackage nosrcs do (except we 
start from
> the jvm zips not rpms since they're the only ones available)
> 
> The problem is - we don't have any control on what Sun chooses to put in
> its own packages, nor on its (dubious) reading of the FHS, so as soon
> someone installs the original sun package the game is over.
> 
> (we have an adaptation compat rpm that adds the right stuff alongside the
> Sun package too but it can do nothing for the the Sun provides)
> 


I wanted to thank you guys from jpackage for all your effort fighting 
this battle over the years.  I think that your point about not having 
any control over what sun decides to do is the crux of the problem.

It would be very easy for sun to change the .spec to make their rpms 
interact well with others, but for business reasons they are reluctant 
to do so.

In the long term this issue needs to worked out between Red Hat, Inc. 
and Sun.

Forcing rpm and yum to deal with the java rpm corner case is insane. It 
will cause a layer of cruft that will need to be dragged along and 
maintained for years.

-dtf