installtion of contrail-openstack-control fail if target node is not able to reach internet and download packges

[Dheeraj Gautam]

while provisioning server via server-manger results in following failures if target host is not able to reach internet and download packages or ubuntu repos are not configured (as in my case):

notice: /Stage[main]//Node[cmbu-cl73.englab.juniper.net]/Contrail_v3::Contrail_control::Contrail_control[contrail_control]/File[/etc/init.d/contrail-named]/ensure: created
err: /Stage[main]//Node[cmbu-cl73.englab.juniper.net]/Contrail_v3::Contrail_control::Contrail_control[contrail_control]/Package[contrail-openstack-control]/ensure: change from purged to present failed: Execution of '/usr/bin/apt-get -q -y -o DPkg::Options::=--force-confold install contrail-openstack-control' returned 100: Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 contrail-openstack-control : Depends: contrail-control (>= 1.10main-2272) but it is not going to be installed
                              Depends: contrail-dns (>= 1.10main-2272) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

notice: /Stage[main]//Node[cmbu-cl73.englab.juniper.net]/Contrail_v3::Contrail_control::Contrail_control[contrail_control]/Exec[control-venv]: Dependency Package[contrail-openstack-control] has failures: true

root@cmbu-cl73:~# cat /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://10.87.132.135/contrail/repo/contrail-ubuntu-150 ./
deb file:/opt/contrail/contrail_install_repo ./
root@cmbu-cl73:~#

root@cmbu-cl73:~# apt-get install contrail-control
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 contrail-control : Depends: authbind but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
root@cmbu-cl73:~#

root@cmbu-cl73:~# apt-get install contrail-dns
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 contrail-dns : Depends: authbind but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
root@cmbu-cl73:~#

[Abhay Joshi (abhayj)]

If this it true, it's not really server manager issue. Seems like contrail issue.

[Dheeraj Gautam (dgautam)]

Re-assigned to Ashish to assign to appropriate person.

[Ignatious Johnson Christopher (ijohnson-x)]

Fixed in R1.10 with https://github.com/Juniper/contrail-packaging/commit/c48c38e81817b008222693595d6c17ff79914f12

Fixed in trunk with https://github.com/Juniper/contrail-packaging/commit/ceb971cdb1bef567229fab56ba0b6a120ef7a4e5