Re: [gentoo-user] stable java virtuals require unstable java packages

["Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@gentoo.org>]

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Am Dienstag, 21. April 2015, 15:37:34 schrieb gottlieb@nyu.edu:
> On Tue, Apr 21 2015, Florian Gamböck wrote:
> 
> > Am 21.04.2015 um 07:42 schrieb Alan McKinnon:
> >> It's either a bug in virtual/jdk-1.7 ebuild or more likely, stable
> >> request for icedtead-bin-7 is lagging behind.
> >
> > You are right, the stable request is still going on:
> > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=546902
> >
> > Obviously the virtual got stableized a bit too fast.
> 
> I was going to ask about this too.  I noticed that the virtual/jdk-1.7
> actually gives a choice of jdk's.  One of them
>    dev-java/oracle-jdk-bin
> does have a stable 1.7 version (indeed also a stable 1.8).
> 
> I am not anxious to switch oracle-*.
> 
> allan
> 
> 

This is a typical problem with virtuals. 

A virtual can (by definition) be stable as soon as one of its providers is stable. Which one does not matter, and stabilization can be pretty much automatic and be done by any dev. 

So, after oracle-* went stable the virtual went stable too. Now portage is trying to upgrade it and can only resolve that by either keywording icedtea-bin or switching to oracle. Which solution it ends up with differs between portage versions, I suspect... 

This should be improved, obviously, but it's not a trivial issue.

My personal advice (without knowing the packages in detail)- if you dont want to switch to oracle, just accept the keywording suggestion from portage and give the suggested ~arch icedtea-bin a try. Don't worry too much about mixing stable and testing (as long as it's only for a few packages). 

- -- 

Andreas K. Huettel
Gentoo Linux developer 
dilfridge@gentoo.org
http://www.akhuettel.de/

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