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

[Omair Majid]

On 04/17/2012 11:54 AM, Deepak Bhole wrote:
>> 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.
> 

A possible "fix" would be for icedtea-web (or java-1.x.0-openjdk) to
generate an empty java-1.x.0-openjdk-plugin package that requires
icedtea-web.

>> 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"

Thanks for taking care of it!

Cheers,
Omair