Cloud images do not need apt-xapian-index

[Clint Byrum]

apt-xapian-index caused some issues recently for us (see bug #1227420)

It was surprising to see this rather unnecessary package on the cloud images. I believe it should be removed to avoid any further complications.

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[Scott Moser (smoser)]

Just for the record, this comes from an 'aptitude' recommends.
aptitude comes from tasksel.
tasksel comes from explicit list in the cloud image seed.
tasksel line in the seed references bug 649833.

just history. I've been annoyed by xapian before also.

http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/germinate-output/ubuntu.saucy/cloud-image.depends

[Ben Howard (darkmuggle-deactivatedaccount)]

Can we just drop it then? For 12.04 and later, the message was dropped from images. I would be in favor of removing it from Saucy.

[Scott Moser (smoser)]

I'm not personally opposed to dropping tasksel.
a ncurses based interactive program doesn't seem like a terribly necessary thing for a cloud image targetted at automation.

[Clint Byrum (clint-fewbar)]

Thanks for considering it. I agree that tasksel seems like something from a more server-centric time and it is pretty obsolete in a cloud-instance world.

[Scott Moser (smoser)]

James page reported:
<jamespage> smoser, I'm seeing update-apt-xapian-index running on first boot of cloud-images
<jamespage> smoser, which is chewing a fair bit of memory and causing some juju/charm related issue
<smoser> i dont kno when that got into the images.
<jamespage> smoser, maybe sometime recently as this was not problem until sometime in the last 3 weeks

I just checked, though and per manifests apt-xapian-index was present in cloud-images since 12.04.

[James Page (james-page)]

I think that this is probably the root cause of bug 1227533 in juju-core as well.

[James Page (james-page)]

Thinking about this a bit more I suspect that the reason that this has started happening on first boot is due to the SRU to apt-xapian-index in 12.04. This is being installed on first boot (by cloud-init upgrade) resulting in an index upgrade (triggered by the maintainer script). I guess this will get better once the next 12.04 images are released with this update included.

[Scott Moser (smoser)]

I moved this to 'aptitude' as the bug because I'd like to keep aptitude in the images as it is popular with users, but I'd like to *not* have apt-xapian-index or at least have a way that we could turn it off.

[Daniel Hartwig (wigs)]

On 08/10/2013 2:42 AM, "Scott Moser" <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> I moved this to 'aptitude' as the bug because I'd like to keep aptitude
> in the images as it is popular with users, but I'd like to *not* have
> apt-xapian-index or at least have a way that we could turn it off.
>

Aptitude will run fine without axi.

affects ubuntu/aptitude
status invalid

[Scott Moser (smoser)]

On Tue, 8 Oct 2013, Daniel Hartwig wrote:

> On 08/10/2013 2:42 AM, "Scott Moser" <email address hidden> wrote:
> >
> > I moved this to 'aptitude' as the bug because I'd like to keep aptitude
> > in the images as it is popular with users, but I'd like to *not* have
> > apt-xapian-index or at least have a way that we could turn it off.
> >

>
> Aptitude will run fine without axi.

Well, would you support me moving it from Recommends to Suggests ?

By "turn it off" I really meant the cron job/postinst that runs in
apt-xapian-index.

[Daniel Hartwig (wigs)]

Configuration of cloud images has nothing to do with packaging of aptitude.

[Dan Watkins (oddbloke)]

apt-xapian-index isn't in the cloud images any longer.