* Ziga Mahkovec <ziga.mahkovec@xxxxxxxx> [2005-05-17 14:50]: > On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 16:56 -0400, Andrew Overholt wrote: > > Tom Fitzsimmons and I (okay, it was mostly Tom ;) worked out how to have a > > set of alternatives for java, javac, etc. that can use a non-system gcc > > installation. This will allow you to easily run our Eclipse packages > > (among others) using your gcc builds. > > > > [...] > > 6. install the resulting RPM (should be in ~/rpmbuild/RPMS/<ARCH>/) > > Do you then run java-1.4.2-gcjHEAD-compat in parallel with the stock > java-1.4.2-gcj-compat? I would assume so, since eclipse packages > require the stock package. This means that installation should be > forced due to file conflicts, right? > > During the latest rawhide update I noticed some eclipse packages failed > to upgrade properly (i.e. I had both version M6.15 and M6.16 installed). > I didn't look into it closely, but could this be a result of having both > java-1.4.2-gcj-compat and java-1.4.2-gcjHEAD-compat installed? Yeah, probably. Some of the files are shared between the two. I guess people trying this will just have to be careful when updating. Andrew
