Bug 405419 – emerge -uDN world pulls dev-java/icedtea-bin after dev-java/sun-jre-bin is emerged

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description rafnov 2012-02-23 12:33:50 UTC]

Should dev-java/icedtea-bin be pulled as a dependency after emerging dev-java/sun-jre-bin?
Here's what I have:

emerge sun-jre-bin

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild  N     ] dev-java/java-config-wrapper-0.16  0 kB
[ebuild  N     ] dev-java/java-config-2.1.11-r3  0 kB
[ebuild  N f   ] dev-java/sun-jre-bin-1.6.0.31  USE="alsa nsplugin -X -jce" 0 kB
[ebuild  N     ] virtual/jre-1.6.0  0 kB
(...)

emerge -uDNtp world

These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild     U  ] sys-auth/pam_mount-2.13::local [2.12::gentoo] USE="ssl -crypt (-selinux)" 0 kB
[nomerge       ] virtual/jdk-1.7.0 
[nomerge       ]  dev-java/icedtea-bin-7.2.0-r2  USE="X alsa cups nsplugin -cjk -doc -examples -source" 
[nomerge       ]   dev-java/java-config-2.1.11-r3 
[ebuild  NS    ]    virtual/jre-1.7.0 [1.6.0] 0 kB
[ebuild  N     ]     virtual/jdk-1.7.0  0 kB
[ebuild  N     ]      dev-java/icedtea-bin-7.2.0-r2  USE="X alsa cups nsplugin -cjk -doc -examples -source" 0 kB

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge sun-jre-bin
2. emerge -uDN 
3. watch your terminal

[Comment 1 Ralph Sennhauser (RETIRED) 2012-02-23 16:25:15 UTC]

If you install virtual/jre-1.6.0 and virtual/jre-1.7.0 isn't masked, Portage will try to upgrade the virtual. jre:1.7 will then pull in one of oracle-jre-bin:1.7 oracle-jdk-bin:1.7, icedtea:7 or icedtea-bin:7 and as oracle-jre-bin is fetch-restricted settle for icedtea-bin.

Either mask (don't accept ~arch) the virtual/jre-1.7.0 or install a provider explicitly, ie. emerge -1 oracle-jre-bin.

Not a bug but the expected behaviour.