On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 10:31:58AM -0800, Tony Hoffmann wrote:
> Last night's update of my SL4 based machines showed machines with the 
> java-1.4.2-sun-compat package having jdk-1.5.0 and java-1.5.0-sun-compat
> installed as a dependency.  Checking java-1.4.2-sun-compat does show 
> java-1.5.0-sun-compat as being a requirement.  Why is that?

I have a related problem - my yum updates are failing with the message

Error: Missing Dependency: jdk = 2000:1.5.0_14-fcs is needed by package
+java-1.5.0-sun-compat

The problem seems to be that I have a newer version of the JDK (1.6.0)
installed locally.  Is there any way to work around this problem
without uninstalling the new JDK?
Eva.