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Bug 2236388

Summary: package ant pulls older java via dependencies, even though newer java is already installed
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Reporter: Christian Horn <chorn>
Component: antAssignee: Mikolaj Izdebski <mizdebsk>
Status: CLOSED MIGRATED QA Contact: RHEL CS Apps Subsystem QE <rhel-cs-apps-subsystem-qe>
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Version: 8.8CC: masanari.iida
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Description Christian Horn 2023-08-31 06:17:31 UTC
Description of problem:
package ant pulls older java via dependencies, even though newer 
java is already installed

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
ant-1.10.5-1.module+el8+2438+c99a8a1e

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. install a rhel8.8GA
2. dnf -y install java-17-openjdk.x86_64
3. dny install ant

Actual results:
Tries to pull in older java:
[..]
Installing:
 ant                           noarch  1.10.5-1.module+el8+2438+c99a8a1e   rhel-8.8-AppStream     193 k
Installing dependencies:
 ant-lib                       noarch  1.10.5-1.module+el8+2438+c99a8a1e   rhel-8.8-AppStream     2.0 M
 java-1.8.0-openjdk           x86_64   1:1.8.0.362.b09-2.el8_7             rhel-8.8-AppStream     544 k
 java-1.8.0-openjdk-devel     x86_64   1:1.8.0.362.b09-2.el8_7             rhel-8.8-AppStream     9.8 M
 java-1.8.0-openjdk-headless  x86_64   1:1.8.0.362.b09-2.el8_7             rhel-8.8-AppStream      34 M
 javapackages-tools           noarch   5.3.0-1.module+el8+2447+6f56d9a6    rhel-8.8-AppStream      44 k

Expected results:
Should use installed java-17

Additional info:
- bz2173874 reports a similar issue for tomcat
- the rhel8.9 nightly still shows the issue for 'ant'

Comment 1 Christian Horn 2023-09-01 00:20:45 UTC
Our partner who reported this is also wondering:
on rhel8.8, which java versions do we 'support' for using 'ant'?

As per above, one would end up with 2 java versions installed,
and repos have 1 or 2 further java versions.

Comment 2 RHEL Program Management 2023-09-29 19:43:56 UTC
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