[Fwd: Re: java-1.4.2-gcj-compat uninstalls sun jre]

[seth vidal]

> Yesterday, my JDK 1.5 package went missing too.
> Tried to reproduce it, but I'm unable to reproduce the problem with
> latest rawhide. I'm not quite sure if it was the java-1.4.2-gcj-compat
> package, since there were a lot of packages updated. As a last surprise
> I saw yum deinstalling the jdk package (it didn't announce it up front,
> just that it was removing it).
> The Sun JDK/JRE RPM packages are simply called "jdk" and "jre", so
> there's some possibility of a conflict there...

what ver of yum were you using?

If something pulled it in post then it could have been an obsolete
brought in by a dependency.

-sv