1261 – virtual/jdk dependency doesn't work

Bug 1261 - virtual/jdk dependency doesn't work

Summary: virtual/jdk dependency doesn't work

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	x86 Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Karl Trygve Kalleberg (RETIRED)

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Reported:	2002-03-20 14:04 UTC by Jeld The Dark Elf
Modified:	2003-02-04 19:42 UTC (History)
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Description Jeld The Dark Elf 2002-03-20 14:04:24 UTC

Several popular packages require virtual/jdk or virtual/jre to be installed.
Examples are swig and mozilla. For some reason only blackdown JRE and JDK
provide this. SUN JDK ( and that is the original java after all ) provides
virtual/jdk-1.4 and ibm-jdk provides virtual/jdk-1.3-r1 or something like that.
Again, this would not be a problem if portage would look at these as at regular
dependencies, but what seems to happen that not finding a literal "virtual/jdk"
string portage attempts to install blackdown packages. BTW mozilla crashes much
more frequently with blackdown than with SUN.

Comment 1 Karl Trygve Kalleberg (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-03-23 13:21:27 UTC

This has been fixed; all JRE/JDKs now provide virtual/java-scheme-2 to signify
that they follow the latest JRE/JDK guidelines (ie, they can be switched
between, using the java-config command).

Remerge your desired JDK/JREs