Re: JPackage 6 on RHEL/CentOS 6

On 12/06/2011 05:42 AM, Boris Folgmann wrote:
> I'm currently setting up some new systems with CentOS 6.1. Some of the 
> included Java RPMs are fairly old. See e.g.
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=759411

Java packages in RHEL/Fedora are not only old, but they have broken
maven support, so the packages aren't even usable for building against.

This situation has not seemed to improve all that much in RHEL 7 either
(since either the packages aren't being updated or the lack of proper
maven support is being carried along).

My guess would have been that you will see the eclipse packages be
maintained and the others stagnate, but your issue with svnkit seems to
have disproved that.

> Anyway, I've tried the jpp6 repo and got this
> Error: Package: eclipse-svnkit-1.3.0-3.el6.x86_64 
> (@anaconda-CentOS-201106060106.x86_64/6.0)
>             Requires: svnkit = 1.3.0
>             Removing: svnkit-1.3.0-3.el6.x86_64 
> (@anaconda-CentOS-201106060106.x86_64/6.0)
>                 svnkit = 1.3.0-3.el6
>             Updated By: svnkit-1.3.5-2.jpp6.noarch (jpackage)
>                 svnkit = 1.3.5-2.jpp6
> 
> Which can be solved by removing the affected RPMs (if one doesn't need them):
> rpm -e eclipse-svnkit eclipse-subclipse

I would have thought that yum should be able to upgrade svnkit by
removing eclipse-svnkit automatically. It's not the fault of JPP that
eclipse-svnkit has such a hard version requirement (that is also quite old).

JPP still uses CentOS 5.x internally, but even that is not so much help,
as we do block several base packages in our yum (mock) configs.

At first I thought that this was going to be a complaint about JPP, but
it really just seems to be a complaint about how bad RHEL 6 and RHEL 7
Java support is.

It shouldn't surprise you that given the choice between RHEL that is
(supposedly) maintained yet does not work for me and JPP which appears
to be unmaintained but works for me, I would pick what works for me.

I can't speak for tomcat7 since I did not work on that upgrade, but I
still actively upload packages sometimes, so it's hard for me to see
that as unmaintained.