Bug 874

Summary:	Where I can find out java from Sun?
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Ojangu <jaanus.ojangu>
Component:	New RPM package request	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	ennael1, lmenut, manuel.mageia, stormi-mageia, yleny
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Source RPM:		CVE:
Status comment:

Description Ojangu 2011-04-18 13:17:44 CEST

Where I can find out java from Sun? Lot off aplications asking about java, Libre Office included, but I can't find java-sun rpm-s.


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Anne Nicolas 2011-04-18 13:46:29 CEST

CC: (none) => ennael1
Component: New RPM package request => RPM Packages

Ojangu 2011-04-18 14:04:55 CEST

Hardware: i586 => x86_64

Comment 1 Nicolas Vigier 2011-04-18 14:08:02 CEST

Libre Office can be used with OpenJDK. Most applications can be used with OpenJDK, which is free software. I don't know if it's really worth it to import Sun java.

CC: (none) => boklm

Comment 2 Luc Menut 2011-04-18 14:33:24 CEST

If you plan to import java-1.6.0-sun in Mageia non-free, the current packaging used by Mandriva should be improved to remove a dependencies loop.

I just saw that the mdv bug 51098 has been closed, but it is not fixed.
https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=51098

see also this thread on AUFML-rpm (french ML)
http://www.mandrivafr.org/pipermail/rpm/2009-March/000357.html

regards,
Luc

CC: (none) => lmenut
Hardware: x86_64 => All

Comment 3 Ahmad Samir 2011-04-18 19:20:53 CEST

As Nicolas said, try installing libreoffice-java-common and it'll pull java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0, which works with libreoffice.

Component: RPM Packages => New RPM package request

Comment 4 Manuel Hiebel 2011-05-04 00:48:23 CEST

Is this resolved?

Comment 5 Anne Nicolas 2011-05-04 15:50:22 CEST

*** Bug 1086 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

CC: (none) => yleny

Comment 6 Samuel Verschelde 2011-05-15 12:33:42 CEST

(In reply to comment #1)
> Libre Office can be used with OpenJDK. Most applications can be used with
> OpenJDK, which is free software. I don't know if it's really worth it to import
> Sun java.

If ease of use matters to us, having the sun java packaged would be a real plus. Whereas I prefer to use openjdk whenever possible, sometimes as a user you can really need to use some applications which can't work without sun's java. Installing it from the official website is not as easy as "urpmi java-sun", so having it packaged would be added value.

CC: (none) => stormi

Comment 7 Nicolas Vigier 2011-05-15 12:48:46 CEST

If a sun java package is added in the repository, I think we should check first that it won't be installed as dependency for something that could use openjdk, if sun java was not requested explicitly. And check that it does not create dependency problems. And this is maybe not the case with current package from Mandriva.

Comment 8 Manuel Hiebel 2011-05-17 22:00:36 CEST

java-1.6.0-sun is imported in nonfree

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
CC: (none) => manuel
Resolution: (none) => FIXED

Comment 9 Ahmad Samir 2011-05-17 22:52:48 CEST

(In reply to comment #7)
> If a sun java package is added in the repository, I think we should check first
> that it won't be installed as dependency for something that could use openjdk,
> if sun java was not requested explicitly. And check that it does not create
> dependency problems. And this is maybe not the case with current package from
> Mandriva.

urpmi preferred java-1.6.0-openjdk-devel; with latest commit it now prefers java-1.6.0-openjdk (for java, jre), and icedtea-web (for java-plugin).

Comment 10 Ahmad Samir 2011-05-17 22:53:18 CEST

s/latest commit/latest commit in meta-task/

Nicolas Vigier 2014-05-08 18:04:33 CEST

CC: boklm => (none)