[CASSANDRA-17669] CentOS/RHEL installation requires JRE not available in Java 11

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Normal
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 4.0.5, 4.1-beta1
• Component/s: Dependencies
• Bug Category: Packaging - Package Distribution
• Severity: Normal
• Complexity: Normal
• Discovered By: User Report
• Platform: Java11
• Since Version: 4.0.2

Source Control Link

https://github.com/apache/cassandra/commit/cd0a40d09e5c029e3cac260ecf4cb3dc02deabc7

Test and Documentation Plan

run CI

• Assignee: Brandon Williams
• Reporter: Erick Ramirez

Authors

Brandon Williams

Reviewers

Berenguer Blasi

• Created: 30/May/22 06:43
• Updated: 05/Oct/22 22:22
• Resolved: 08/Jun/22 16:21

Description

Background

A user reported on Stack Overflow and the DataStax Developers dtsx.io/discord an issue with installing Cassandra when only Java 11 is installed.

Symptoms

Attempts to install Cassandra using YUM requires Java 8:

$ sudo yum install cassandra
Dependencies resolved.
================================================================================================================================================================
 Package                                          Architecture                Version                                      Repository                      Size
================================================================================================================================================================
Installing:
 cassandra                                        noarch                      4.0.4-1                                      cassandra                       45 M
Installing dependencies:
 java-1.8.0-openjdk                               x86_64                      1:1.8.0.312.b07-2.el8_5                      appstream                      341 k
 java-1.8.0-openjdk-headless                      x86_64                      1:1.8.0.312.b07-2.el8_5                      appstream                       34 M
Installing weak dependencies:
 gtk2                                             x86_64                      2.24.32-5.el8                                appstream                      3.4 M

Transaction Summary
================================================================================================================================================================
Install  4 Packages

Similarly, attempts to install the RPM results in:

$ sudo rpm -i cassandra-4.0.4-1.noarch.rpm 
warning: cassandra-4.0.4-1.noarch.rpm: Header V4 RSA/SHA256 Signature, key ID 7e3e87cb: NOKEY
error: Failed dependencies:
	jre >= 1.8.0 is needed by cassandra-4.0.4-1.noarch

Root cause

Package installs on CentOS and RHEL platforms has a dependency on JRE 1.8+:

Requires:      jre >= 1.8.0

However, JRE is no longer available in Java 11. From the JDK 11 release notes:

In this release, the JRE or Server JRE is no longer offered. Only the JDK is offered.

Workaround

Override the dependency check when installing the RPM with the --nodeps option:

$ sudo rpm --nodeps -i cassandra-4.0.4-1.noarch.rpm 

Issue Links

• causes: CASSANDRA-17765 RPM Installation on centos 7 is broken by CASSANDRA-17669