If Icedtea-web is the plug-in component for OpenJDK upstream, its name should be openjdk-plugin !

Andrew Haley aph at redhat.com
Tue Apr 17 06:10:02 PDT 2012


On 04/17/2012 01:58 PM, Pavel Tisnovsky wrote:
> Andrew Dinn wrote:
>> On 17/04/12 12:47, Fernando Cassia wrote:
>>> I just did a "yum install packagename*" on several packages in my server
>>> box running
>>> Fedora 17 (beta, rc3).
>>
>> Yes, you are correct -- I was misreading the error I got when I ran this
>> command
>>
>>   [root at sputstik ~]# yum install openjdk*
>>   Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
>>   Setting up Install Process
>>   No package openjdk* available.
>>   Error: Nothing to do
>>   [root at sputstik ~]#
>>
>> The problem is not the wildcard itself, rather that the pattern openjdk*
>> does not match an actual package. The following does work
>>
>>   [root at sputstik ~]# yum install *openjdk*
> 
> AFAIK it's still not 100% correct, because shell could in some circumstances
> expand *openjdk* into file list (depending on contents of `pwd` of course).
> Safer is to use "*openjdk*"

The core problem, I suppose, is that it's rather hard to know that you
need the name "java-1.x.0-openjdk", and the fact that "icedtea-web" is
independent is rather confusing.

Having said that, "yum search openjdk" does find

icedtea-web.x86_64 : Additional Java components for OpenJDK

...although the description sucks mightily.

Andrew.




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