> On Tuesday 09 March 2010, Andrew Haley wrote:
> On 03/09/2010 02:02 PM, Gary Benson wrote:
> > Andrew Haley wrote:
> >> On 03/09/2010 12:53 PM, Matthias Klose wrote:
> >>> On 05.03.2010 17:31, Alexander Kurtakov wrote:
> >>>> Time to bring GCJ support discussion back.
> >>>> We should find a way to not install java-1.5.0-gcj on every
> >>>> users computers. There are packages that do not work with it
> >>>> and it's plain wrong to install it as a dependency of this
> >>>> packages which are explicitly requiring java 1.6.0.
> >>>>
> >>>> Possible solutions:
> >>>> * Solution 1 - someone who cares for the gcj stack finds a way
> >>>>
> >>>> to not require java-1.5.0-gcj when there are gcj bits in the
> >>>> package so we do not force gcj installation on every user.
> >>
> >> That shouldn't be too difficult. I'm looking at jakarta-oro now: I
> >> removed the
> >>
> >> --- jakarta-oro.spec~ 2009-07-26 13:52:21.000000000 +0100
> >> +++ jakarta-oro.spec 2010-03-09 13:24:34.445414981 +0000
> >> @@ -59,8 +59,6 @@
> >>
> >> %if %{gcj_support}
> >> BuildRequires: java-gcj-compat-devel
> >>
> >> -Requires(post): java-gcj-compat
> >> -Requires(postun): java-gcj-compat
> >>
> >> %endif
> >>
> >> %description
> >>
> >> and it's fine. There's no need AFAICS for a Requires: on
> >> java-gcj-compat.
> >
> > If it uses rebuild-gcj-db in its %post and %postun scripts then it
> > needs those dependencies.
>
> Gary, I just *tried it* !
>
> No it doesn't. The actual scripts are
>
> %if %{gcj_support}
> %post
> if [ -x %{_bindir}/rebuild-gcj-db ]
> then
> %{_bindir}/rebuild-gcj-db
> fi
> %endif
>
> %if %{gcj_support}
> %postun
> if [ -x %{_bindir}/rebuild-gcj-db ]
> then
> %{_bindir}/rebuild-gcj-db
> fi
> %endif
>
> So, if gcj is installed the right thing happens and if gcj isn't installed
> the right thing still happens.
I don't think that if gcj is not installed the right thing still happens
because if rebuild-gcj-db is not available and the gcj-db isn't rebuild then
the gcj bits will be simply unusable or I'm wrong?
Alex
>
> Andrew.
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