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

[Deepak Bhole]

* Andrew Haley <aph at redhat.com> [2012-04-17 09:11]:
> 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.
> 

icedtea-web does virtual provide java-1.x.0-openjdk-plugin. Yum install
java-1.6.0-openjdk-plugin should work on F15 and F16. For F17, it should
be java-1.7.0-openjdk-plugin, but there was a bug in the spec. I just
fixed it and it is rebuilding now.

yum install java-1.x.0-openjdk* will *not* install icedtea-web however.
But that seems like a bug in yum to me as there is nothing that the spec
file can do about it.

> Having said that, "yum search openjdk" does find
> 
> icedtea-web.x86_64 : Additional Java components for OpenJDK
> 
> ...although the description sucks mightily.

Originally wanted to have the plug-in and javaws as separate
packages so the summary was kept generic for the parent package.

I have fixed it and new builds are happening now:
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=313780
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=313784
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=313779

It now says:
"Java browser plug-in and Web Start implementation"

Cheers,
Deepak