Hi,
I think I will abandon whole update alternatives process and come
with direct remove/add as this is not firs time when alternatives
behaved .. as they do. But until now it was always catch in time.
Please don't drop alternatives from OpenJDK. ;-)
It's a really messy way to get the wanted result (swapable java stacks). I
think we can do better. (...)
I always find
$ rpm -qf `which java`
file /usr/bin/java is not owned by any package
to be very frustrating.
We need a better which, that follow symlinks ? ;-)
I guess here the problem is with RPM. It won't allow the same file
being owned by multipla packages.
Pardon if I'm talking about something you've already tried.
If you package a set of alternative configs as their own package, and
make other Java packages depends on it? If I understand alternatives, it
relies on symlinks that point to other symlinks. So the "top level"
symlinks, like /usr/bin/java and /etc/alternatives/java, would be part
of that java-alternatives package. Them the symlinks that point to real
binaries would be owned by the specific jre or jdk package.
As anyone could install alternatives-java per se, it would have a dummy
script that echoes "no default java selected" and exit an error code.
Am I being to simplicist?
[]s, Fernando Lozano
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