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Eric Evans commented on CASSANDRA-4498:
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This doesn't seem like an improvement to me. The openjdk packages might not be
the ones we recommend, but it's quite a bit better than a totally unsatisfied
(and undeclared) dependency. If it comes down to documenting the need to
obtain and install our recommended JVM, versus having an APT installed
Cassandra simply not work, I would think the former preferable.
FWIW, I would use {{java-package}} to build a Debian package myself, and
distribute that to the machines in my cluster. The resulting package should
Provide {{java6-sdk}}, satisfying the dependency so that openjdk wouldn't need
to be installed.
We could even resurrect one of the more specific java package builders that
were popular before Sun grew a pair, and Oracle cut them off.
Finally, if integration with Linux distributions is important, we should be
focusing our efforts on OpenJDK, since the Oracle version is always going to be
a pain. I realize that may not be the easiest path, but that's often the case
for the right/correct one. :)
> Remove openjdk-6-jre Cassandra APT dependencies
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> Key: CASSANDRA-4498
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-4498
> Project: Cassandra
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Terrance Shepherd
> Assignee: paul cannon
> Priority: Minor
> Labels: debian
> Fix For: 1.1.4, 1.2
>
> Attachments: apache_cassandra_Packages.diff
>
>
> As it is well known the recommended jre for Cassandra is sun java 1.6 but at
> this point that package no longer in the debian or ubuntu apt repos. In order
> to run Cassandra with the sun java 1.6 jre it must be installed manually with
> out the repos. Because of this when you install cassandra via the apache or
> datastax apt repos it must also install openjdk-6-jre even though sun java
> 1.6 jre is already installed.
> I would suggest that the java apt dependencies be removed from the Depends
> field in package configuration and move to either the Recommends or Suggests
> field so that way openjdk is not being downloaded when not necessary and
> possibly interfering with a be pre-installed jre
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