java JRE upgrade 10 does not work

[Derek Broughton]

Peter Garrett wrote:

> On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 20:21:44 -0400
> Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
> 
>> Peter Garrett wrote:
> [snips]
>> 
>> > after the java install ( not forgetting  update-alternatives --config
>> > java )
>> 
>> Not necessary - it's part of the install.
> 
> Really ? I didn't see it, and when I checked with update-alternatives
> --config java I had to change the number...

I went from sun-java5-jre as my default, installed sun-java6-jre without
doing anything with update-alternatives, and "java" was set to the 1.6
version.  I guess one needs to check.

>> That's not a complete runtime - you need sun-java?-jre.  The bin package
>> is just the native code.  Damn, I forgot the plugin :-)
> 
> Umm...
> 
> $ apt-cache depends sun-java6-bin
> sun-java6-bin
>   Depends: sun-java6-jre
> [snip]

How about that... I didn't know you could do cyclic depends.  I knew (and
just rechecked) that sun-java6-jre depends on sun-java6-bin.  I didn't
realize it could be vice versa as well.  You keep learning stuff with
linux :-)
 
> Right, libc6 needs careful handling - although I haven't had trouble
> with it in upgrades here  :)

I've had upgrades without issues, and others with, and suspect it's only
really a problem when I'm using the cutting edge packages.  There was a
security update to edgy's libc6 this week, though, and I didn't have the
nerve to try without removing libc6-i686 first :-)
-- 
derek