eucalyptus-common purge removes files from eucalyptus-java-common

[dotCOMmie]

After running
aptitude install eucalyptus-common eucalyptus-cloud eucalyptus-walrus eucalyptus-sc eucalyptus-cc eucalyptus-nc
aptitude purge eucalyptus-common eucalyptus-cloud eucalyptus-walrus eucalyptus-sc eucalyptus-cc eucalyptus-nc
aptitude install eucalyptus-common eucalyptus-cloud eucalyptus-walrus eucalyptus-sc eucalyptus-cc eucalyptus-nc

Package eucalyptus cloud controller will break -- wont start properly because of many missing files under /etc (/etc/eucalyptus/cloud.d/scripts* and more..). These "config" files belong to package eucalyptus-java-common which gets uninstalled but not purged with above commands. Reinstalling purged packages re-installs eucalyptus-java-common but these files do not get reinstalled, resulting in broken installation.

It seems one of the packages above deletes these even though they belong to a different package.

A nasty work around is to use aptitudes "--purge-unused," that is:
aptitude --purge-unused purge eucalyptus-common eucalyptus-cloud eucalyptus-walrus eucalyptus-sc eucalyptus-cc eucalyptus-nc

Using debian testing with repo "deb http://repo.eucalyptus.com/debian squeeze contrib" also came across bug #461202 on ubuntus launchpad (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/eucalyptus/+bug/461202), seems related.

[Thierry Carrez (ttx)]

eucalyptus-common postrm does "rm -rf /etc/eucalyptus" on purge
So yes, that can affect files from eucalyptus-java-common.

[Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland)]

The purge command needs to be more explicit, since multiple packages are using /etc/eucalyptus.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package eucalyptus - 1.6.2~bzr1166-0ubuntu3

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eucalyptus (1.6.2~bzr1166-0ubuntu3) lucid; urgency=low

  * debian/eucalyptus-nc.upstart: handle libvirt restarts, LP: #512887
  * eucalyptus-cc.eucalyptus-cc-publication.upstart,
    eucalyptus-cloud.eucalyptus-cloud-publication.upstart,
    eucalyptus-cloud.upstart, eucalyptus-common.eucalyptus.upstart,
    eucalyptus-nc.eucalyptus-nc-publication.upstart,
    eucalyptus-nc.upstart,
    eucalyptus-sc.eucalyptus-sc-publication.upstart,
    eucalyptus-sc.upstart,
    eucalyptus-walrus.eucalyptus-walrus-publication.upstart,
    eucalyptus-walrus.upstart, uec-component-listener.upstart: add a few
    inline comments, including a comment at the top of every upstart script
    that seems to be required to get get vim syntax highlighting to work
  * eucalyptus-cc.postrm, eucalyptus-cloud.postrm,
    eucalyptus-common.postrm, eucalyptus-sc.postrm,
    eucalyptus-walrus.postrm, uec-component-listener.postrm: fix package
    purging with per-package file purging lists, LP: #503063
  * eucalyptus-cc.eucalyptus-cc-publication.upstart,
    eucalyptus-sc.eucalyptus-sc-publication.upstart,
    eucalyptus-walrus.eucalyptus-walrus-publication.upstart: stop publication
    jobs if the relevant service stops running
 -- Dustin Kirkland <email address hidden> Wed, 03 Feb 2010 19:01:47 -0800

[chris grzegorczyk (chris-grze)]

This problem should be resolved in the current version. Please re-open if this is not the case.