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 14:37]:
> 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.
> 

No problem. For the record, I've opened a bug against yum:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=813432

Cheers,
Deepak