Bug 580478

Summary:	OpenJDK .desktop files use /usr/bin/..., but these may be symlinks to executables from other JDKs
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	Radek Bíba <rbiba>
Component:	java-1.6.0-openjdk	Assignee:	jiri vanek <jvanek>
Status:	CLOSED UPSTREAM	QA Contact:	BaseOS QE - Apps <qe-baseos-apps>
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Version:	5.5	CC:	ahughes, patrickm, psplicha
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Description Radek Bíba 2010-04-08 11:23:29 UTC

Description of problem:
$ grep ^Exec= /usr/share/applications/java-1.6.0-openjdk*.desktop
/usr/share/applications/java-1.6.0-openjdk-jconsole.desktop:Exec=/usr/bin/jconsole
/usr/share/applications/java-1.6.0-openjdk-policytool.desktop:Exec=/usr/bin/policytool

That looks correct, but the target files are managed by Alternatives, so they're symlinks to /etc/alternatives/jconsole and /etc/alternatives/policytool, and these are only symlinks to the OpenJDK jconsole and policytool when OpenJDK is configured as 'java'/'javac'. When e.g. the SUN JDK is set up, the SUN JDK jconsole or policytool are executed when the menu items are clicked.

The .desktop files should use full paths to the OpenJDK executables, ie. /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0-openjdk/bin/jconsole and /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0-openjdk/bin/policytool.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-1.11.b16.el5

Comment 5 Andrew John Hughes 2011-01-18 14:19:59 UTC

The upstream bugzilla is at http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla.

Comment 6 jiri vanek 2011-01-19 12:09:09 UTC

I do not want to add this to icedtera bugzilla. I want to repair this in its makefile. But as i walked through it, i wa snot able to find proper place.

Comment 9 jiri vanek 2011-12-21 15:44:29 UTC

Send to upstream:
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2011-December/016550.html

Comment 10 Radek Bíba 2011-12-28 17:50:09 UTC

Thanks :)

Comment 11 jiri vanek 2012-01-06 16:58:29 UTC

http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/icedtea6/rev/24c5bd2e7d57