Bug 648260 - update-alternatives: error: alternative pack200 can't be slave of java: it is a slave of javac
Summary: update-alternatives: error: alternative pack200 can't be slave of java: it is...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
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Product: openSUSE 11.4
Classification: openSUSE
Component: Basesystem (show other bugs)
Version: Factory
Hardware: Other Other
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Assignee: Michal Vyskocil
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Depends on: 642531
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Reported: 2010-10-21 07:54 UTC by Michal Vyskocil
Modified: 2011-02-15 09:30 UTC (History)
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Description Michal Vyskocil 2010-10-21 07:54:06 UTC 
update-alternative 1.15.8.5 does not allow having the same slave for two alternatives, which is unfortunately the case of java-1_6_0-openjdk. It has pack200* slaves for java, even other JVM has it in javac. It causes an error after installation

# java-1_6_0-sun-devel is already installed
$ zypper in java-1_6_0-openjdk
Installing: java-1_6_0-openjdk-1.6.0.0_b18-1.29 [done]
Additional rpm output:
update-alternatives: error: alternative pack200 can't be slave of java: it is a slave of javac
update-alternatives: using /usr/lib64/jvm/jre-1.6.0-openjdk to provide /usr/lib64/jvm/jre-openjdk (jre_openjdk) in auto mode.
update-alternatives: using /usr/lib64/jvm/jre-1.6.0-openjdk to provide /usr/lib64/jvm/jre-1.6.0 (jre_1.6.0) in auto mode
Comment 1 Michal Vyskocil 2010-10-21 07:57:08 UTC 
Because no java symlink is created, openjdk does not work out of the box after installation.

The fix is easy - call sed -i '/pack200/d/' /var/lib/rpm/alternatives/java before update-alternatives --install java call and move pack200 slaves to javac in openjdk package.
Comment 2 Michal Vyskocil 2011-02-15 09:30:40 UTC 
Already fixed in openjdk, unfortunatelly with side-effects - bug#669716