On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 10:54 -0700, Dan Thurman wrote: > On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 10:40 -0700, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: > > On 4/10/06, Anthony Green <green % redhat.com> wrote: > > > On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 11:47 -0700, Dan Thurman wrote: > > > > What's the point of using JPackages if I cannot use it to update > > > > Java components I need and want? > > > > > > I don't know. We don't recommend using the JPackages repos directly. > > > > This is of some concern to me also. We mostly use RHEL (FC for a little > > testing) so it won't trickle down until RHEL5, but my understanding was > > that Red Hat was adopting JPackage as the model for Java packages > > in Fedora Core and Red Hat Enterprise. The official FC5 rpms even > > have "jpp" in their names, for example ant-1.6.5-1jpp_7fc.i386.rpm . > > Now, I understand that the "fc" also means that gjc-specific stuff is in > > the rpm, but one advantage of JPackage is that you can easily switch > > JVMs. > > > > Are you saying that with Red Hat is going to maintain a set of separate > > packages and if you ever want any JPackages beyond that set you > > shouldn't be using RHEL or Fedora Core? > > > > Dan: I don't know if you saw my earlier email, but you probably > > just need to build your own stax-bea since it's non-free. > > _______________________________________________ > > JPackage-discuss mailing list > > JPackage-discuss@xxxxxxxx > > https://www.zarb.org/mailman/listinfo/jpackage-discuss > > I don't care about 'stax-bea'! This was added on later. I > added this to the --exclude list and then there was another > dependency. Add that, then another and the list seems long > and I gave up after the 5th try because it was expanding into > a hive of dependencies! > > So - in a nutshell... I cannot proceed with the simplest > updates! Again, you cannot enable fpackage-fc because it > does not exists. Someone wrote that its there for fc1-fc4 > but you are out of luck for fc5. So - I disabled that and > tried [generic] and now disabled that. So - no updates are > possible for me at this time. > > Kind regards, > Dan > _______________________________________________ > JPackage-discuss mailing list > JPackage-discuss@xxxxxxxx > https://www.zarb.org/mailman/listinfo/jpackage-discuss OK, This is what I have done so far: 1) Downloaded: dom4j-1.6.1-1jpp.rpm forced installed with no dependencies 2) Enabled jpackage repo [generic] yum update --exclude=stax-bea-1.0-2jpp --exclude=castor\* --exclude=geronimo-specs\* Note: 1) In jpackage, there is both a bea-stax and stax-bea - confusing. Cannot install this package no matter what I tried to do. 2) castor-depends is looking for: castor-0.9.6-2jpp and it does not exist. 3) Cannot overwrite fc5's geronimo-specs\* All files are updated except those excluded above. Cheers, Dan