Hello,
I am trying to create a container image which will build Java software with Maven and Java 11 (rather focussing on CentOS 8 here).
When installing 'maven' with yum, 'java-1.8.0-openjdk-devel' is installed as a dependency. If one then installs 'java-11-openjdk-devel', and use the update-alternatives command for java and javac, everything works fine and Maven uses Java 11 for the build.
But I would like to avoid shipping OpenJDK 1.8 with the image, since it would uselessly double its size. An approach would be to install Maven manually, but it feels better to use the provided package.
Looking at the spec file, I understand that the 'maven' package requires 'java-devel' without explicitly specifying a version. Is there some way (configuration, yum option, alternative, etc.) to make OpenJDK 11 satisfying this dependency? Could the new modules / app stream approach of CentOS 8 help here?
This is of course a more general RPM / yum question, but I suspect that the Java use case is a recurring one, as many of us are currently upgrading from 1.8 to 11.
Thanks in advance for hints, or telling me that there is no way to achieve this,
Mathieu