Bug 260161
| Summary: | jpackage-utils provides rebuild-security-providers and thus prevents using jpackage | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Mary Ellen Foster <mefoster> |
| Component: | jpackage-utils | Assignee: | Thomas Fitzsimmons <fitzsim> |
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 7 | CC: | bugs-redhat, candrews, dqarras, luis, mail, sergio, tschweikle |
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| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | All | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | 1.7.3-1jpp.4.fc9 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix |
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| Last Closed: | 2008-01-22 19:58:28 UTC | Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Mary Ellen Foster
2007-08-28 13:28:30 UTC
I was just about to report the same thing. I've asked on #jpackage and the strong view is that Fedora is screwing around with their packages. What is the reason for including rebuild-security-providers? What does it do? I'm sure it's there for a good reason and I'd just like to understand. Perhaps Fedora is seeking to package a current stable view of JPackage? That *would* be fine if they maintained interoperability with JPackage but they don't - it makes it impossible to install any JPackage-specific package. JPackage has made great strides in making Java development on Linux a real possibility - Fedora and RedHat should do everything they can to support them. (In reply to comment #1) > What is the reason for including rebuild-security-providers? What does it do? From the script's header: # Rebuild the list of security providers in classpath.security In detail: the script registers external security providers with libgcj. See Fedora's bouncycastle and java-1.5.0-gcj packages, for usage examples. I did try to send this change upstream but I got no response: https://zarb.org/pipermail/jpackage-discuss/2006-February/009592.html Now that we're shipping IcedTea we can fix the problem properly, by adding /etc/java/security/security.d support in the JRE itself. In the short term, since the script seems to be annoying JPackage users, I guess I could in-line it wherever it is used, which is now only bouncycastle and java-1.5.0-gcj (previously gnu-crypto and jessie used it, but they've been merged into libgcj). The short-term in-line approach seems like a good one, and having the IcedTea route in the medium-term would be great. Thanks very much for responding. I'd personally mark this as high priority, since it makes using jpackage ~impossible. I inlined rebuild-security-providers in java-1.5.0-gcj and bouncycastle, then removed the script from jpackage-utils. Fixed in Rawhide: jpackage-utils-1.7.3-1jpp.4.fc9 *** Bug 441104 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** still can't install java-1.5.0-gcj in fc8 , with jpackage-utils-1.7.3-1jpp.4.fc9 I have the same problem on RHEL 5.3: # cat /etc/redhat-release Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.3 (Tikanga) # yum install eclipse-jdt eclipse-subclipse .... --> Finished Dependency Resolution java-1.4.2-gcj-compat-1.4.2.0-40jpp.115.x86_64 from rhel-x86_64-server-5 has depsolving problems --> Missing Dependency: /usr/bin/rebuild-security-providers is needed by package java-1.4.2-gcj-compat-1.4.2.0-40jpp.115.x86_64 (rhel-x86_64-server-5) Error: Missing Dependency: /usr/bin/rebuild-security-providers is needed by package java-1.4.2-gcj-compat-1.4.2.0-40jpp.115.x86_64 (rhel-x86_64-server-5) # rpm -q jpackage-utils jpackage-utils-1.7.5-1jpp # yum provides /usr/bin/rebuild-security-providers Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, rhnplugin, security Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * epel: ftp.icm.edu.pl * jpackage-rhel: ftp.pbone.net * jpackage-generic: ftp.pbone.net jpackage-utils-1.7.3-1jpp.2.el5.noarch : JPackage utilities Matched from: Filename : /usr/bin/rebuild-security-providers Could the same fix be done for the RHEL 5 java-1.4.2-gcj package? I was also hit by this on RHEL 5.3. I opened a new bug for this: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=497213 I also included the current workaround I am using: http://www.zarb.org/pipermail/jpackage-discuss/2008-July/012751.html I comment on bug 497213 to this effect: jpackage 1.7 works now, but jpackage 5.0 is still broken in the same way... so it's still impossible to use jpackage 5.0 |