[Pkg-bareos-devel] Bug#771870: Bug#771870: bareos-database-common: fails to install: bareos-database-common.config: /usr/sbin/bareos-dbcheck: not found

[Evgeni Golov]

Hi,

On 12/03/2014 04:10 AM, Andreas Beckmann wrote:

> during a test with piuparts I noticed your package failed to install. As
> per definition of the release team this makes the package too buggy for
> a release, thus the severity.

Thanks. This is what you get when you try to solve dependency loops :/

>>From the attached log (scroll to the bottom...):
> 
>   Selecting previously unselected package bareos-database-common.
>   (Reading database ... 9220 files and directories currently installed.)
>   Preparing to unpack .../bareos-database-common_14.2.1+20141017gitc6c5b56-4_amd64.deb ...
>   Unpacking bareos-database-common (14.2.1+20141017gitc6c5b56-4) ...
>   Setting up bareos-database-common (14.2.1+20141017gitc6c5b56-4) ...
>   /var/lib/dpkg/info/bareos-database-common.config: 1: /var/lib/dpkg/info/bareos-database-common.config: /usr/sbin/bareos-dbcheck: not found
>   Warning: failed to get "dbname" from config, using default value "bareos", see /tmp/bareos-config.11958.log
>   /var/lib/dpkg/info/bareos-database-common.config: 1: /var/lib/dpkg/info/bareos-database-common.config: /usr/sbin/bareos-dbcheck: not found
>   Warning: failed to get "dbuser" from config, using default value "bareos", see /tmp/bareos-config.11958.log
>   (config) dbc_go() bareos-database-common configure.

bareos-database-common is not designed to be installed alone, yet it
triggers the above bug in that situation.

We could add a layer of "[ -x /usr/sbin/bareos-dbcheck ]" around the
calls to it (it's in bareos-database-tools).
Or we re-add bareos-database-tools to bareos-database-common depends,
but remove bareos-database-{postgresql,mysql,sqlite} from -tools depends
(which is also wrong, as dbcheck won't work then in all cases).

Joerg, any ideas? I'd go for the silly -x one.

Greets
Evgeni