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Brandon Williams commented on CASSANDRA-17765:
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The critical feature we can delineate distros with is [boolean
dependencies|https://rpm-software-management.github.io/rpm/manual/boolean_dependencies.html],
added first in rpm 4.13 (centos7 sadly has 4.11-3.) Those that have boolean
deps are solved by CASSANDRA-17669 and can use either java 8 or java 11 to
satisfy its requirements. For distros that lack this, I think we have to
publish another repo with the pre-17669 spec that depends on java 8,
essentially putting them back in the world they were in before. They'll need
to either float a java 8 and java 11 installation to use 11, or issue --nodeps
to bypass the java 8 requirement. Making both java 8 and java 11 binary
packages is odd: typically a package only has one set of dependencies, and we
would have two with same name and different dependencies, or we'd have to
introduce a different package name, and either option seems fairly undesirable.
> RPM Installation on centos 7 is broken by CASSANDRA-17669
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> Key: CASSANDRA-17765
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-17765
> Project: Cassandra
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Packaging
> Reporter: Jeremiah Jordan
> Assignee: Brandon Williams
> Priority: Normal
> Fix For: 4.0.x, 4.1-rc, 4.x
>
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> With CASSANDRA-17669 adding use of "or" in the dependencies for the RPM so it
> can depend on java 8 or java 11 it broke installation on CentOS Linux 7.
> This is bad because CentOS Linux 7 is the "current" release of CentOS Linux,
> version 8 was EOL'ed in favor of the new pre-release distribution model being
> used for CentOS Stream 8.
> I don't know what the best answer is here, maybe making a CentOS 7 specific
> package that reverts back to just java 8 in the requirements? But I think
> should needs to be done.
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