[CASSANDRA-8083] OpenJDK 6 Dependency in dsc20 RPM

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Low
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.11
• Component/s: Packaging
• Labels: qa-resolved

Environment

Packages pulled from the community repo at http://rpm.datastax.com/community as per the installation guidelines.

• Severity: Low
• Since Version: 2.0.0
• Assignee: Michael Shuler
• Reporter: Timo Beckers

Authors

Michael Shuler

• Created: 08/Oct/14 11:52
• Updated: 16/Apr/19 09:31
• Resolved: 08/Oct/14 16:29

Description

According to https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-6925 and https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-7243, the Cassandra project only produces platform-agnostic .tar.gz. The person in the second ticket was referred to https://support.datastax.com/home to report RPM issues, but this ticketing system requires a login to post and registration is not open. I realize this is not the right issue tracker to post this on, but I hope to reach the community repo maintainer through this one.

The problem I'm facing only seems to occur for the 'cassandra20' package from the Datastax community repo. On a fresh CentOS installation with no prior Java stack installed:

1. yum install dsc20
   Installing:
   dsc20
   Installing for dependencies:
   java-1.6.0-openjdk
   ...
   cassandra20

This inevitably results in the following log message:
"Cassandra 2.0 and later require Java 7 or later."
and sometimes
"Unsupported major.minor version 51.0"

The issue seems to be with the 'cassandra20' package that depends on openjdk6. I noticed the same behaviour with dsc21 a couple weeks ago, but this seems to be fixed already. Could you please take a look or assign this to a person who could?