[gentoo-user] eselect mystery

[gentoo-user] eselect mystery

[Helmut Jarausch]

Hi,

could anybody please explain me how 'eselect' works?

My problem

I have installed dev-java/oracle-jdk-bin-9.04 and removed  
dev-java/oracle-jdk-bin-1.8.0.162

but eselect java-vm list shows

Available Java Virtual Machines:
grep: /usr/share/java-config-2/vm/oracle-jdk-bin-1.8: No such file or  
directory
   [1]   icedtea-8
   [2]   oracle-jdk-bin-1.8  system-vm

i.e. it still searches for oracle-jdk-bin-1.8 and doesn't know about  
oracle-jdk-bin-9

Is this a bug or is there any means to bring eselect up-to-date ?

Many thanks for a hint,
Helmut

Re: [gentoo-user] eselect mystery

[Floyd Anderson]

On Sun, 04 Feb 2018 12:57:40 +0100
Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@skynet.be> wrote:
>
>i.e. it still searches for oracle-jdk-bin-1.8 and doesn't know about 
>oracle-jdk-bin-9
>
>Is this a bug or is there any means to bring eselect up-to-date ?

Comment 2 on bug #641690 [1] say no. As mentioned there, the point 
seems to be dev-java/oracle-jdk-bin-9.0.4[-gentoo-vm].

You should also note the true-branch (when enabling gentoo-vm):

    ewarn "WARNING! You have enabled the gentoo-vm USE flag, making this JDK"
    ewarn "recognised by the system. This will almost certainly break things."

in the dev-java/oracle-jdk-bin-9.0.4 ebuild.


Link:
  - [1] <https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=641690#c2>



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Regards,
floyd