Cannot install swift-account on the same machine with swift-proxy

[guanxiaohua2k6]

I tried to install swift all in one. But I met the following error when I tried to execute "sudo apt-get install swift-account".

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  swift-account
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 19 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/7,626 B of archives.
After this operation, 115 kB of additional disk space will be used.
(Reading database ... 80338 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking swift-account (from .../swift-account_1.3.0-0ubuntu1_all.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/swift-account_1.3.0-0ubuntu1_all.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite '/usr/bin/swift-account-audit', which is also in package swift 1.3.0-0ubuntu1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/swift-account_1.3.0-0ubuntu1_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

[gholt (gholt)]

I believe this was a problem with (some?) of the 1.3 releases. It's probably easiest to just install the latest stable 1.4 release from https://launchpad.net/~swift-core/+archive/release

[guanxiaohua2k6 (guanxiaohua2k6)]

Thank you, gholt. I tried the 1.4, but it failed too.

[gholt (gholt)]

That's pretty odd:

$ wget 'https://launchpad.net/~swift-core/+archive/release/+files/swift_1.4.0-0ubuntu0%7Eppa1%7Elucid1_all.deb'

$ wget 'https://launchpad.net/~swift-core/+archive/release/+files/swift-account_1.4.0-0ubuntu0%7Eppa1%7Elucid1_all.deb'

$ dpkg --contents swift_1.4.0-0ubuntu0~ppa1~lucid1_all.deb | grep '\<swift-account-audit\>'
-rwxr-xr-x root/root 15523 2011-06-10 12:43 ./usr/bin/swift-account-audit

$ dpkg --contents swift-account_1.4.0-0ubuntu0~ppa1~lucid1_all.deb | grep '\<swift-account-audit\>'

$

That shows that the swift-account package has no swift-account-audit file in it, which is correct, it is only in the swift package in 1.4.

[guanxiaohua2k6 (guanxiaohua2k6)]

Thanks. I did something wrong here. It is ok with swift 1.4.

BTW, will you fix it in swift 1.3?

[gholt (gholt)]

Well, I'm not the packager, but I'll try to assign this bug to who I think is.

[guanxiaohua2k6 (guanxiaohua2k6)]

If I used ppa:openstack-release/2011.2 to install swift on ubuntu10.10 servers, there was no error. And if I used ppa:openstack-release/2011.2 to install swift on ubuntu11.04 servers, the error occurred.

BTW, I found the content of "http://ppa.launchpad.net/openstack-release/2011.2/ubuntu/dists/natty/main/binary-amd64/Packages" was empty. It seemed that there was something wrong when creating ppa:openstack-release/2011.2 for ubuntu11.04.

[Chmouel Boudjnah (chmouel)]

We are in process to remove the swift ppa and move over distro packages (i.e: ubuntu shipped ones) which should be reported/fixed there.