Infinite cycle installing and removing java-zoneinfo

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moskito

Hi all,

Recently, I've been getting an infinite cycle of installing/uninstalling java-zoneinfo. Why is it happening and how can I break this cycle?
pkg query %ro java-zoneinfo shows no reverse dependencies.

Example:
Code: 
❯ doas pkg upgrade
Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...
FreeBSD repository is up to date.
Updating FreeBSD-kmods repository catalogue...
FreeBSD-kmods repository is up to date.
All repositories are up to date.
Checking for upgrades (225 candidates): 100%
Processing candidates (225 candidates): 100%
Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting)
The following 1 package(s) will be affected (of 0 checked):

New packages to be INSTALLED:
    java-zoneinfo: 2021.e [FreeBSD]

Number of packages to be installed: 1

Proceed with this action? [y/N]: y
[1/1] Installing java-zoneinfo-2021.e...
[1/1] Extracting java-zoneinfo-2021.e: 100%
❯ doas pkg autoremove
Password:
Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting)
Deinstallation has been requested for the following 1 packages:

Installed packages to be REMOVED:
    java-zoneinfo: 2021.e

Number of packages to be removed: 1

Proceed with deinstalling packages? [y/N]: y
[1/1] Deinstalling java-zoneinfo-2021.e...
[1/1] Deleting files for java-zoneinfo-2021.e: 100%
❯ doas pkg upgrade
Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...
FreeBSD repository is up to date.
Updating FreeBSD-kmods repository catalogue...
FreeBSD-kmods repository is up to date.
All repositories are up to date.
Checking for upgrades (225 candidates): 100%
Processing candidates (225 candidates): 100%
Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting)
The following 1 package(s) will be affected (of 0 checked):

New packages to be INSTALLED:
    java-zoneinfo: 2021.e [FreeBSD]

Number of packages to be installed: 1

Proceed with this action? [y/N]:
 
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moskito said:
Why is it happening and how can I break this cycle?
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moskito said:
[1/1] Installing java-zoneinfo-2021.e...
[1/1] Extracting java-zoneinfo-2021.e: 100%
❯ doas pkg autoremove
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Why would you want to pkg-autoremove(8) immediate after installation of the package?

Probably one of the packages due for upgrade requires java/java-zoneinfo.

Is in the upgrade list one of the below packages listed? Do not doas pkg autoremove:
Code: 
% pkg rquery %ro java-zoneinfo
java/openjdk8
java/openjdk8-jre

On my system:
Code: 
% pkg info -r java-zoneinfo
java-zoneinfo-2021.e:
       openjdk8-8.452.09.1
% pkg info -r openjdk8
openjdk8-8.452.09.1:
        libreoffice-25.2.3.2_1 (libjawt.so)
 
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T-Daemon said:
Why would you want to pkg-autoremove(8) immediate after installation of the package?
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java-zoneinfo is scheduled to be installed on every pkg upgrade. I sometimes run pkg autoremove to remove packages that are no longer needed (not requested and not a runtime dependency of any other package). Somehow java-zoneinfo is considered not needed, but is a dependency of openjdk8 (which itself is a dependency of libreoffice). I don't understand this, may I don't understand autoremove.
 
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You can fix it with pkg set.
pkg-set(8)
Code: 
-A 01, --automatic 01
                Set automatic flag for the package: 0 is not automatic, 1 is
                automatic.  This affects the operation of pkg-autoremove(8).
 
I've updated the repository configuration and it's no longer happening. It might have been related as I was overriding the same names FreeBSD and FreeBSD-kmods instead of disabling those and adding new ones for the latest packages. I'm not sure it was that, but today it seems ok.
The new /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf is the following:

Code: 
FreeBSD: { enabled: no }

FreeBSD-kmods: { enabled: no }

FreeBSD-latest: {
  url: "pkg+http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/${ABI}/latest",
  mirror_type: "SRV",
  signature_type: "FINGERPRINTS",
  fingerprints: "/usr/share/keys/pkg",
  enabled: yes
}

FreeBSD-kmods-latest: {
  url: "pkg+https://pkg.freebsd.org/${ABI}/kmods_latest_${VERSION_MINOR}",
  mirror_type: "SRV",
  signature_type: "FINGERPRINTS",
  fingerprints: "/usr/share/keys/pkg",
  priority: 1,
  enabled: yes
}
 
moskito said:
I've updated the repository configuration and it's no longer happening. It might have been related as I was overriding the same names FreeBSD and FreeBSD-kmods instead of disabling those and adding new ones for the latest packages. I'm not sure it was that, but today it seems ok.
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It is probably not related to pkg repository configuration; I do not have any custom repository configuration and I still get 'java-zoneinfo' removed in pkg autoremove and it gets installed again in a pkg upgrade.
 
I just noticed that running pkg upgrade immediately after removing 'java-zoneinfo' with a pkg autoremove does not install it again. It seems to get installed again only if another package is installed or upgraded. 'java-zoneinfo' gets installed again even when a package that does not depend on it is installed, as seen in the example below:

Code: 
# pkg install elisa
Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...
FreeBSD repository is up to date.
All repositories are up to date.
The following 2 package(s) will be affected (of 0 checked):

New packages to be INSTALLED:
elisa: 25.04.2
java-zoneinfo: 2021.e

Number of packages to be installed: 2

The process will require 6 MiB more space.
2 MiB to be downloaded.

Proceed with this action? [y/N]:
 
moskito said:
Somehow java-zoneinfo is considered not needed, but is a dependency of openjdk8 (which itself is a dependency of libreoffice).
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I recall openjdk17 being default or a req for libreoffice.

I've seen the java-zone loop thing with pkg autoremove too. I installed openjdk8 for jogl-amp (HD/OpenGL in a Java game).
 
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