Bug 785820

Summary:	dev-java/java-config: depend-java-query - if invalid jdk specification is used (virtual/jdk:*) then the error should say that version must be specified
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Daniel Dawson <danielcdawson>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Java team <java>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	candrews, flow, fordfrog, neil, sam
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=785436
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Daniel Dawson 2021-04-26 12:20:25 UTC

A dependency string such as "virtual/jdk:*" (see e.g. bug 785436) causes an error message from depend-java-query:

$ depend-java-query --get-vm 'virtual/jdk:*'
!!! ERROR: could not convert string to float: '*'

I don't know whether it's okay to have a wildcard for this purpose, but if not, it should at least give a better error message than that.

Comment 1 Miroslav Šulc gentoo-dev

2021-04-28 17:58:44 UTC

the problem is not the wildcard itself but the fact that there is no version specified. this is not valid and not supported. it should be something like <=virtual/jdk-1.8:*". it sure might detect this kind of invalid version specification and report that appropriately.