update-alternative says "jfr can't be slave of javac" when installing temurin-11-jre and temurin-17-jdk

[ChristianK-DEVK]

Please provide a brief summary of the bug

We are running SuSE Enterprise Linux Server 15, ServicePack 6, and using the RPMs provided at https://adoptium.jfrog.io/artifactory/rpm/sles/15/x86_64/

We noticed that when installing temurin-11-jre followed by temurin-17-jdk , the RPM postscriptlet fails with

update-alternatives: error: alternative jfr can't be slave of javac: it is a slave of java
warning: %post(temurin-17-jdk-17.0.15.0.0.6-0.x86_64) scriptlet failed, exit status 2

We are leaving the update-altenatives untarnished in automatic mode. The problem seems to be that both temurin-11-jre and temurin-17-jdk both have "jfr" defined as slaves in the link groups of update-alternatives. temurin-11-jre has it jfr defined in its "java" link group, while temurin-17-jdk has jfr defined as slave in its "javac" link group.
This leads to the collision in the RPM postscriptlet.

update-alternatives --display java

java - auto mode
link best version is /usr/lib64/jvm/temurin-17-jdk/bin/java
link currently points to /usr/lib64/jvm/temurin-17-jdk/bin/java
link java is /usr/bin/java
slave jaotc is /usr/bin/jaotc
slave java.1 is /usr/share/man/man1/java.1
slave jexec is /usr/bin/jexec
slave jfr is /usr/bin/jfr

update-alternatives --display javac

update-alternatives: error: no alternatives for javac

(because installation of the latter link group failed with above error message)

Did you test with the latest update version?

• Yes

Please provide steps to reproduce where possible

Use SuSE Enterprise Linux Server 15, ServicePack 6

From https://adoptium.jfrog.io/artifactory/rpm/sles/15/x86_64/

install temurin-11-jre followed by temurin-17-jdk

zypper install temurin-11-jre
...
update-alternatives: using /usr/lib64/jvm/temurin-11-jre/bin/java to provide /usr/bin/java (java) in auto mode
(1/1) Installing: temurin-11-jre-11.0.27.0.0.6-0.x86_64
...

zypper install temurin-17-jdk
....
update-alternatives: using /usr/lib64/jvm/temurin-17-jdk/bin/java to provide /usr/bin/java (java) in auto mode
update-alternatives: error: alternative jfr can't be slave of javac: it is a slave of java
warning: %post(temurin-17-jdk-17.0.15.0.0.6-0.x86_64) scriptlet failed, exit status 2
(1/1) Installing: temurin-17-jdk-17.0.15.0.0.6-0.x86_64

Expected Results

zypper install temurin-17-jdk
succeeding without postscriptlet errors

Actual Results

update-alternatives: using /usr/lib64/jvm/temurin-17-jdk/bin/java to provide /usr/bin/java (java) in auto mode
update-alternatives: error: alternative jfr can't be slave of javac: it is a slave of java
warning: %post(temurin-17-jdk-17.0.15.0.0.6-0.x86_64) scriptlet failed, exit status 2

What Java Version are you using?

11 and 17

What is your operating system and platform?

SuSE Enterprise Linux 15, SP 6

How did you install Java?

With the zypper package manager

Did it work before?

yes, it did work like 6 months ago or so

Did you test with other Java versions?

Relevant log output

[ChristianK-DEVK]

While investigating further, I noticed that installing two JRE flavours , or installing two JDK flavours just works fine.

It is the mix of one JRE and one JDK package resulting in a conflict.

Example for two JDK flavours:

update-alternatives: using /usr/lib64/jvm/temurin-11-jdk/bin/java to provide /usr/bin/java (java) in auto mode
update-alternatives: using /usr/lib64/jvm/temurin-11-jdk/bin/javac to provide /usr/bin/javac (javac) in auto mode
(1/2) Installing: temurin-11-jdk-11.0.27.0.0.6-0.x86_64 ................................................................................................................................[done]
update-alternatives: using /usr/lib64/jvm/temurin-17-jdk/bin/java to provide /usr/bin/java (java) in auto mode
update-alternatives: using /usr/lib64/jvm/temurin-17-jdk/bin/javac to provide /usr/bin/javac (javac) in auto mode
(2/2) Installing: temurin-17-jdk-17.0.15.0.0.6-0.x86_64