[Bug 546677] Re: puppet should recommend etckeeper

[Mathias Gug]

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 08:23:44AM -0000, Thierry Carrez wrote:
> At this point we shouldn't force etckeeper on every puppet system... A
> "Suggests" looks good to me. 

Agreed.

> However puppet needs to be fixed so as to
> gracefully make use of etckeeper if present, but not fail in any way if
> it's not...
> 

It should not fail if etckeeper is not installed.

Nicolas could you outline specifically how puppet fails to run?

Could you post debug logs from a puppet run with the --verbose --debug
options?

  status incomplete

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Mathias Gug
Ubuntu Developer  http://www.ubuntu.com


** Changed in: puppet (Ubuntu)
       Status: Triaged => Incomplete

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puppet should recommend etckeeper
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Status in “puppet” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete

Bug description:
Binary package hint: puppet

Puppet needs to depend or at least recommend etckeeper, it fails to load silently because puppet.conf reads:
prerun_command=/etc/puppet/etckeeper-commit-pre
postrun_command=/etc/puppet/etckeeper-commit-post