dbus is not installed during freeipa-client installation on Ubuntu Server

[Stephan Rügamer]

Dear Colleagues,

the package 'dbus' is missing during package installation of freeipa-client package.
Even when 'libdbus-1-3' is a binary dep of certmonger package, and libdbus-1-3 refers to the dbus package as recommended binary dep, it won't be installed by default.

Without the dbus message, the execution of ipa-client-install will fail.

We should make the dbus package as direct binary dep of freeipa-client package.

Regards,
\sh

[Stephen Gallagher (stephen-gallagherhome)]

As an additional data point, libdbus is a strict dependency for both certmonger and SSSD. The proper place to fix this bug is to add that strict dependency to those two packages, rather than freeipa-client (which should pick it up through dependency-resolution).

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

Stephan: what do you mean it doesn't get installed by default? Recommended packages should get installed by default AIUI.

sssd and certmonger already depend on libdbus

[Stephan Rügamer (sruegamer)]

Timo & Stephen,

yes, but not when you have Recommends turned off, which is quite usual on servers in datacenter environments.
So, I have a debootstrap / minimal installation for our servers. Recommends are turned off for apt-get/aptitude.

libdbus-1-3 gets installed, but only recommends the dbus package, which includes the dbus service for upstart, but freeipa-client/ipa-client-install has a call for service dbus start.

dbus, will not be installed, when recommends are turned off, so all calls are failing and freeipa-client/ipa-client-install will just fail.
Even certmonger needs the dbus service started, but when Recommends are turned off, even that will fail.

So, eventually freeipa-client needs a direct binary dep for dbus (the package), or it needs to be changed from Recommends to Depends somewhere else.

From a packagers perspective, I understand that the dbus package itself is not needed for libdbus-1-3 being installed.
But for freeipa-client package it's a direct dependency, So, eventually we need to add this dep to sssd/certmonger or to freeipa-client ( i'm in favor of adding this dep to sssd & certmonger)

I know that this configuration (Recommends being turned off) is not the default config for Ubuntu and Debian, but from a sysadmin perspective, Recommends are pulling in a lot of not needed packages, (Just think of open-vm-tools, with Recommends turned on, it will pull in a lot of X packages, you actually don't need on a server VM) that's why they are most of the time turned off.

Regards,

\sh

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