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[Mary Ellen Foster]

On 11/5/05, Bikehead <bikehead at amberpoint.com> wrote:
> After the lastest rounds of rawhide updates I keep getting scriptlet
> failed errors about /usr/bin/rebuild-gcj-db not found.
> java-1.4.2-gcj-comat-1.4.2.0-40jpp_51rh does have a rebuild-gcj-db in
> /etc/alternative/jre_gcj/bin.  I read somewhere that rebuild-gcj-db is
> under the alternatives system so I suspect that somehow my alternatives
> setup has gotten screwed up.  What is the best way to fix this?

This bug explains basically what's going on:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=171843

Comment #4 in that bug also gives a workaround that can be used until
it gets fixed.

Note that you probably have two copies in the RPM database of a lot of
Java-related packages now because of that failing scriptlet. What I've
been doing with those is, rpm -ev --nodeps --noscripts both of the
duplicates, and then rpm -ivh just the newest version, using the RPMs
in /var/cache/yum. Is there a cleaner way to clean up that sort of
thing?

MEF

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