Package dependencies need work

[Peter Sankauskas]

---- SRU Justification (Marc Cluet) ----

TEST CASE 1:
1. sudo apt-get install mcollective-middleware
2. mcollective is not installed - it should be as this package wraps mcollective and rabbitmq into a single installable unit.

TEST CASE 2:
1. sudo apt-get install mcollective-client
2. sudo mc-find-hosts - will fail with the following error message:

/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/mcollective.rb:1:in `require': no such file to load -- rubygems (LoadError)
    from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/mcollective.rb:1
    from /usr/sbin/mc-find-hosts:3:in `require'
    from /usr/sbin/mc-find-hosts:3

REGRESSION POTENTIAL:
It's just adding missing dependencies, regression potential almost 0 since we don't incur in any other changes.

COURSE OF ACTION FOR ONEIRIC:
Add the missing dependencies.

1. Add mcollective in mcollective-middleware package so it installs the missing daemon
2. Add rubygems, libsystemu-ruby or ruby-json on mcollective-clients package in order to fullfil missing dependencies

---- SRU Justification ----

This is actually a bug report for mcollective, mcollective-middleware and mcollective-client.

The package dependencies need to be looked at because as they stand now on Ubuntu 11.10 oneiric, they are not correct.

What I have discovered so far is:

mcollective-middleware need to depend on mcollective, otherwise the directory /etc/mcollective is not created.

At least mcollective-client needs to depends on 'rubygems'. Without it you receive the following:
$ mc-find-hosts
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/mcollective.rb:1:in `require': no such file to load -- rubygems (LoadError)
    from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/mcollective.rb:1
    from /usr/sbin/mc-find-hosts:3:in `require'
    from /usr/sbin/mc-find-hosts:3

I believe mcollective-middleware also needs to depend on rubygems, because the above error was replaced with "silence" after installing rubygems. Once I restarted the mcollective service, silence was replaced with the correct functionality.

Please let me know if you need more information.

Peter

[Marc Cluet (lynxman)]

Thanks Peter for your bug report, I'll investigate the dependencies and get back to you shortly if I need more information.

[Marc Cluet (lynxman)]

Update to mcollective-1.2.1-0ubuntu3 that solves the dependency issues

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[Marc Cluet (lynxman)]

New debdiff with improved dependencies

[Marc Cluet (lynxman)]

Revised debdiff with proper version numbering

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Hello Peter, or anyone else affected,

Accepted mcollective into oneiric-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Using the packages from the updates repository I was able to recreate both bug reports. I then installed the packages from -proposed and was no longer able to recreate the bugs.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package mcollective - 1.2.1-0ubuntu2.1

---------------
mcollective (1.2.1-0ubuntu2.1) oneiric-proposed; urgency=low

  * debian/control (LP: #884908)
    - Added dependency on mcollective for mcollective-middleware package
    - Added dependency for rubygems, libsystemu-ruby, ruby-json for
      mcollective-common package
 -- Marc Cluet <email address hidden> Mon, 28 Nov 2011 21:09:22 -0800