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

[Deepak Bhole]

* Omair Majid <omajid at redhat.com> [2012-04-17 13:38]:
> 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.
> 

We generally avoid creating meta packages for such purposes.
meta-packages are usually used when multiple packages want to be pulled
in at once (i.e. same use case as for yum groups).

Besides, this sounds a lot like a yum bug to me.

Cheers,
Deepak

> >> 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