'juju bootstrap' with no arguments gives confusing message

[Jamie Strandboge]

Under https://juju.ubuntu.com/docs/getting-started.html it status "Run the command-line utility with no arguments to create a sample environment:

$ juju

This will create the file ~/.juju/environments.yaml"...

While it does create ~/.juju/environments.yaml, it also output an error. Eg:
$ rm -rf ./.juju
$ juju
error: No environments configured. Please edit: /home/jamie/.juju/environments.yaml
$ ls -l ./.juju/environments.yaml
-rw------- 1 jamie jamie 175 Mar 15 08:25 ./.juju/environments.yaml

The error message make my think something went wrong even though I was instructed to do this. This is at best an 'info' message. Eg, this would be less confusing:
$ juju
info: /home/jamie/.juju/environments.yaml does not exist, creating one. Please edit: /home/jamie/.juju/environments.yaml for your environment.

[Clint Byrum (clint-fewbar)]

Thanks Jamie, agreed, this is not an error and the message should be changed to be more informational.

[Benjamin Kerensa (bkerensa)]

@Clint: Is there a proposed change or who would be the person to make a decision on what we should change the string to?

[Clint Byrum (clint-fewbar)]

Only 'juju bootstrap' prints the message now, which I think is less confusing since you actually asked it to do something.

[Alessandro Losavio (alo21)]

I take care about this bug

[Martin Erik Werner (arand)]

I tested the patch you, Allesandro Losavio, suggested on IRC, and in that version it's not good, since it makes juju fail to build from source.

It's worth noting that currently juju also FTBFS in Quantal due to failing test cases, see Bug #1017113, however, applying this patch makes it fail earlier in the process, so I'm assuming that it creates a separate issue.

I've attached the build log for this patch.

[Clint Byrum (clint-fewbar)]

alo, I'd suggest submitting this as a merge proposal against juju itself... To do that:

bzr branch lp:juju
cd juju
<edit>
./test
bzr commit -m 'Useful commit message' --fixes lp:956000
bzr push lp:~alo21/juju/fix-lp95600
bzr lp-propose

It makes no sense for this to land in Ubuntu first with Juju and Ubuntu being so closely related.

[Alessandro Losavio (alo21)]

I pushed my branch as required. You can find it here: https://code.launchpad.net/~alo21/juju/fix-lp956000/

[Gustavo Niemeyer (niemeyer)]

I don't feel like this is a huge issue, but please note that if this is changed, the message should only be touched in the very specific case where "juju" is executed without any other arguments. It is really an error to interrupt whatever juju was going to do and stop to print that message.

[Alessandro Losavio (alo21)]

After some days, I still do not understand why I cannot try my package on my PC. I received some errors. So I decide to freeing this bug to other contributors.