tools/jpackage/linux - tests (from 8212780: Packaging Tool Implementation)

[Baesken, Matthias]

Hello, I started to look a bit  into the   tools/jpackage/linux  - tests  (from 8212780).
So far I noticed the following issues , maybe someone could comment on them  ?

rpm/rpmbuild version requirements
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We still have some older Suse Linux 11 systems , but those systems  have  rather old rpm/rpmbuild versions.  On those systems the  tools/jpackage/linux - tests  do not work (probably because of old rpm(build)) .
For example  we have issues with this version:
rpmbuild --version
RPM version 4.4.2.3

On  newer systems with RPM version 4.11.2  the tests do not show the issues.
Is there some   requirement for a  minimum rpm version (like 4.10 or  4.11)  to run the tools/jpackage/linux - tests  ?


getting packages does not work everywhere/ on all distros ?
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On our Ubuntu 18  linux ppc64le  test machine  ,  the  test    tools/jpackage/linux/AppCategoryTest.java    (and maybe other tests)  tries to find out   rpm packages of various files .
However calling  rpm  whatprovides   fails  (maybe because it is Ubuntu ?) .

Example :

Running [rpm, -q, --queryformat, %{name}\\n, -q, --whatprovides, /lib/powerpc64le-linux-gnu/libbsd.so.0]
file /lib/powerpc64le-linux-gnu/libbsd.so.0 is not owned by any package
java.io.IOException: Command [rpm, -q, --queryformat, %{name}\\n, -q, --whatprovides, /lib/powerpc64le-linux-gnu/libbsd.so.0] exited with 1 code
                at jdk.incubator.jpackage/jdk.incubator.jpackage.internal.Executor.executeExpectSuccess(Executor.java:73)
                at jdk.incubator.jpackage/jdk.incubator.jpackage.internal.LinuxRpmBundler.lambda$initLibProvidersLookup$7(LinuxRpmBundler.java:187)
                at jdk.incubator.jpackage/jdk.incubator.jpackage.internal.LibProvidersLookup.lambda$execute$1(LibProvidersLookup.java:67)
                at java.base/java.util.stream.ReferencePipeline$3$1.accept(ReferencePipeline.java:195)
                at java.base/java.util.HashMap$KeySpliterator.forEachRemaining(HashMap.java:1694)
                at java.base/java.util.stream.AbstractPipeline.copyInto(AbstractPipeline.java:484)
                at java.base/java.util.stream.AbstractPipeline.wrapAndCopyInto(AbstractPipeline.java:474)
                at java.base/java.util.stream.ReduceOps$ReduceOp.evaluateSequential(ReduceOps.java:913)
                at java.base/java.util.stream.AbstractPipeline.evaluate(AbstractPipeline.java:234)
                at java.base/java.util.stream.ReferencePipeline.collect(ReferencePipeline.java:578)
                at jdk.incubator.jpackage/jdk.incubator.jpackage.internal.LibProvidersLookup.execute(LibProvidersLookup.java:78)
                at jdk.incubator.jpackage/jdk.incubator.jpackage.internal.LinuxPackageBundler.getListOfNeededPackages(LinuxPackageBundler.java:184)
                at jdk.incubator.jpackage/jdk.incubator.jpackage.internal.LinuxPackageBundler.createDefaultReplacementData(LinuxPackageBundler.java:210)
                at jdk.incubator.jpackage/jdk.incubator.jpackage.internal.LinuxPackageBundler.execute(LinuxPackageBundler.java:140)
                at jdk.incubator.jpackage/jdk.incubator.jpackage.internal.Arguments.generateBundle(Arguments.java:641)
                at jdk.incubator.jpackage/jdk.incubator.jpackage.internal.Arguments.processArguments(Arguments.java:514)
                at jdk.incubator.jpackage/jdk.incubator.jpackage.main.Main.execute(Main.java:98)
                at jdk.incubator.jpackage/jdk.incubator.jpackage.main.Main.main(Main.java:52)

Do you expect  those  tests to work on Ubuntu ?




Thanks and best regards, Matthias