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Re: update-alternatives problem for java?



On Friday 08 August 2003 15:15, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 02:54:56PM +0200, Egon Willighagen wrote:
> > On Friday 08 August 2003 14:26, Hein Meling wrote:
> > >   Every time I do an update, and there is a new version of sablevm (I
> > > think), the alternatives system returns to "auto" mode and selects
> > > sablevm as the default JVM, even though I have previously (manually)
> > > selected j2sdk1.4 as the default.
> > >
> > >   Anyone know why this keeps happening?
> >
> > The auto mode selects a JVM based on highest priority...
>
> But selecting an alternative by hand should set it to be manual, and it
> should not be changed after that unless it is set back to auto.

Right... and I understood from Hein's email that the sablevm package
does this upon upgrade...

Is that a bug?

Egon



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