On Jan 16, 2008, at 10:37 AM, Eva Myers wrote: > 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 The problem seems to be that I have a newer version of the JDK (1.6.0) 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? I'm beginning to sound like a stuck record here. The JPackage packages of java coexist perfectly. > Eva. -- Steve Traylen [log in to unmask]