Description of problem: Several updates from FC4 test have erased rpm installed Sun JRE from the system. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): JRE 1.5 How reproducible: Install Sun Jre. Update regularly and check Yum logs. Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Sun Jre erased from system. Expected results: Would have expected FC updates to leave this alone. Additional info: Note that I did not identify a system component as I'm not certain just what is causing this. See attached log files from selected dates when this occured.
Created attachment 114124 [details] log files from described events
reassigning to rpm as yum doesn't have any control over implicit obsoletes.
*** Bug 156116 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
rpm -qp --provides jdk-1_5_0_03-linux-i586.rpm jre = 1.5.0_03 j2sdk = 1.5.0_03 j2re = 1.5.0_03 jaxp_parser_impl xml-commons-apis jdk = 2000:1.5.0_03-fcs D: ========== tsorting packages (order, #predecessors, #succesors, tree, depth, breadth) D: 0 0 0 1 1 0 -jdk-1.5.0_03-fcs.i586 /* On upgrade, erase older packages of same color (if any). */ mi = rpmtsInitIterator(ts, RPMTAG_PROVIDENAME, rpmteN(p), 0);
So if you change RPMTAG_PROVIDENAME to RPMTAG_NAME does the problem vanish? and how many other, weirder problems does it create?
This is really the sun package not designed in a way to integrate with the rest of the java/rpm world (JPackage). JPackage is recognised and used by the major Linux RPM vendors. See also: http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4680244 http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4680244 Work around for you is to use the jpackage style rpm built from the self-exploding binary (not the sun rpm) - see http://jpackage.org/rebuilding.php http://jpackage.org/faq.php. An external howto is here http://www.mksearch.mkdoc.org/howto/jpackage-sun-fc3/ This is the best solution as you get a nicer laid out jdk that plays with the Fedora java design and implementation (as it's based off JPackage). I'll try and get something in the release notes about it - (probably "for proprietory JDKs please use packages JPackage Changing rpm to not key off PROVIDENAME at this time for FC4 is not tenable.