[Bug 884908] Re: Package dependencies need work

[James Page]

** Also affects: mcollective (Ubuntu Precise)
   Importance: Medium
     Assignee: Marc Cluet (lynxman)
       Status: Fix Committed

** Changed in: mcollective (Ubuntu Precise)
       Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released

** Changed in: mcollective (Ubuntu Oneiric)
       Status: Fix Committed => In Progress

** Changed in: mcollective (Ubuntu Oneiric)
   Importance: Undecided => Medium

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Title:
  Package dependencies need work

Status in “mcollective” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “mcollective” source package in Oneiric:
  In Progress
Status in “mcollective” source package in Precise:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  This is actually a bug report for mcollective, mcollective-middleware
  and mcollective-client.

  The package dependencies need to be looked at because as they stand
  now on Ubuntu 11.10 oneiric, they are not correct.

  What I have discovered so far is:

  mcollective-middleware need to depend on mcollective, otherwise the
  directory /etc/mcollective is not created.

  At least mcollective-client needs to depends on 'rubygems'. Without it you receive the following:
  $ mc-find-hosts
  /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/mcollective.rb:1:in `require': no such file to load -- rubygems (LoadError)
      from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/mcollective.rb:1
      from /usr/sbin/mc-find-hosts:3:in `require'
      from /usr/sbin/mc-find-hosts:3

  I believe mcollective-middleware also needs to depend on rubygems,
  because the above error was replaced with "silence" after installing
  rubygems. Once I restarted the mcollective service, silence was
  replaced with the correct functionality.

  Please let me know if you need more information.

  Peter

  ---- SRU Justification (Marc Cluet) ---

  TEST CASE:
  1. Install mcollective-middleware, it won't install mcollective
  2. Install mcollective-clients, some of the plugins will fail due to the lack of rubygems, libsystemu-ruby or ruby-json

  Regression potential:
  It's just adding dependencies, regression potential almost 0.

  Course of action for oneiric:
  Add the missing dependencies.

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