On Thu, 8 Mar 2007, Troy Dawson wrote:
Testing results thus far:
If you currently have installed
j2sdk < 1.4.2-13 *only*
no problems, it updates fine
If you currently have installed
j2sdk < 1.4.2-13 *and* jdk < 1.5.0-11
no problems, it updates both the j2sdk and jdk fine
If you currently have installed
j2sdk < 1.4.2-13 *and* jdk = 1.5.0-11
Problem: It updates j2sdk and deletes jdk.
Why? I don't know. It has nothing to do with yum or apt, because it does it
even if you do this by hand.
The answer is probably buried somewhere in the output when you do:
rpm -vv -F j2sdk-1.4.2_13-fcs.i586.rpm
I see clearly that rpm does erase jdk:
...
D: removing 1756 entries from Filemd5s index.
D: ========== --- jdk-1.5.0_11-fcs i586-linux 0x0
D: erase: jdk-1.5.0_11-fcs has 2685 files, test = 0
...
I would guess that the epoch number is the problem when comparing
'provides' from j2sdk and from jdk; the j2sdk one wins big time:
$ rpm -qp j2sdk-1.4.2_13-fcs.i586.rpm --provides
j2sdk = 2000:1.4.2_13-fcs
$ rpm -qp jdk-1.5.0_11-fcs.i586.rpm --provides
jre = 1.5.0_11
j2sdk = 1.5.0_11
j2re = 1.5.0_11
jaxp_parser_impl
xml-commons-apis
jdk = 2000:1.5.0_11-fcs
$ rpm -qp j2sdk-1.4.2_13-fcs.i586.rpm --qf='%{EPOCH}\n'
2000
If jdk 'provided': j2sdk = 2000:1.5.0_11
then I would guess that there wouldn't be a problem.
While on the subject of bad RPMs :-) I have tested that
one can sign these v3 RPMs provided that one uses an old rpm binary.
If you have an old version of the rpm 3 binary kicking around,
circa RH 6.x (they were always statically build until RH 9 I believe),
then it can be used to sign these old v3 RPMs. It worked for me in a
quick test where I signed the RPM with a RH 6.0 rpm binary, set
gpgcheck=1 in the yum configuration and was able to yum-install the signed
package.
$ rpm -qpi j2sdk-1.4.2_13-fcs.i586.rpm |grep Sig
Signature : DSA/SHA1, Thu 08 Mar 2007 02:24:31 PM PST, Key ID ab4b50e5c880dc45
cheers,
denice
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