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

[Andrew Haley]

On 04/17/2012 07:16 PM, Deepak Bhole wrote:
> * Andrew Haley <aph at redhat.com> [2012-04-17 14:11]:
>> On 04/17/2012 06:40 PM, Deepak Bhole wrote:
>>> Besides, this sounds a lot like a yum bug to me.
>>
>> Can you explain that?  I don't understand how this can possibly
>> be a bug in yum.
>>
> 
> icedtea-web provides java-1.6.0-openjdk-plugin

Oh, I see.

> If it is not on the system, 'yum install java-1.6.0-openjdk-plugin' pulls
> in icedtea-web. However on the same system, 
> 'yum install "java-1.6.0-openjdk*"' does not pull it in.
> 
> So yum is ignoring virtual provides when glob pattern matching is used,
> which is why I think it is a yum bug.

Definitely.  Thanks for the explanation.

Andrew.