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

[Felix Geyer]

Hi,

On Wed, 03 Dec 2014 10:58:03 +0100 Evgeni Golov <evgeni at debian.org> wrote:
> 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).

Shouldn't the whole setting up a database part be done in the director package?
It's the one that cares about having a database setup and it can depend on -tools
and a database backend.
So by the time the director is configured you have all the things you need to
create the database.

Cheers,
Felix