Bug 1212963

Summary:	java version string breaks jpackage-utils
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Reporter:	Eric Helms <ehelms>
Component:	java-1.8.0-openjdk	Assignee:	Omair Majid <omajid>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	BaseOS QE - Apps <qe-baseos-apps>
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Version:	6.6	CC:	ahughes, cwelton, dgoodwin, mizdebsk, omajid, sbaiduzh
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Description Eric Helms 2015-04-17 19:28:50 UTC

With the recent update of java-1.8.0-openjdk, the expectations of the jpackage-utils tool are broken.

1) /usr/share/java-1.8.0 does not exist
2) /var/lib/java-1.8.0 does not exist
3) version string from 'java -v' has changed from 'java' to 'openjdk' in first line of output (and jpackage-utils parses expecting java):

$ java -version
openjdk version "1.8.0_45"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_45-b13)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.45-b02, mixed mode)



RPMS:

java-1.5.0-gcj.x86_64                 1.5.0.0-29.1.el6       
java-1.8.0-openjdk.x86_64             1:1.8.0.45-28.b13.el6_6           
java-1.8.0-openjdk-headless.x86_64    1:1.8.0.45-28.b13.el6_6

Comment 1 Omair Majid 2015-04-17 19:40:11 UTC

CC'ing Mikolaj who maintains the Fedora counterpart of jpackage-utils (javapackages-tools).

Mikolaj, do you know which patches added support for OpenJDK 8 to jpackages-tools? Are those safe to port to RHEL 6's jpackage-utils?

Comment 3 Andrew John Hughes 2015-04-17 19:48:30 UTC

#3 isn't going to change; we discussed this upstream and they mentioned legal issues with using 'java' there. If anything, there's a stronger case for changing 1.6 & 1.7.

Comment 4 Omair Majid 2015-04-17 19:53:28 UTC

Looks like the fix is documented completely in bug 982683.

Comment 5 Omair Majid 2015-04-17 20:13:49 UTC

(In reply to Eric Helms from comment #0)
> With the recent update of java-1.8.0-openjdk, the expectations of the
> jpackage-utils tool are broken.

Any suggestions on how to confirm if a fix is working?

Comment 6 Omair Majid 2015-04-17 22:06:10 UTC

This was already fixed for RHEL 6.7: bug 1149605.

Comment 7 Andrew John Hughes 2015-04-18 00:10:48 UTC

IN that case, this should be closed as a duplicate. If the fix is needed sooner, a z-stream bug needs to be cloned from bug 1149605.

Comment 9 Omair Majid 2015-04-20 14:48:36 UTC

As a feature, this is not eligible for a fix in RHEL 6.6. Please use 6.7 instead.