Re: ceph-resource-agents

[Florian Haas <florian@hastexo.com>]

On 02/17/12 00:09, Sage Weil wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Feb 2012, Noah Watkins wrote:
>> On Ubuntu LTS 10.04, ceph-resource-agents package depends on resource-agents that seems to have not shown up until 11.10 so there is a dependency problem:
>>
>> nwatkins@piha:~/Projects/ceph$ sudo apt-get install ceph-resource-agents
>> Reading package lists... Done
>> Building dependency tree       
>> Reading state information... Done
>> ceph-resource-agents is already the newest version.
>> You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these:
>> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>>  ceph-resource-agents : Depends: resource-agents but it is not installable
>>                         Recommends: pacemaker but it is not going to be installed
>> E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).
>>
>>
>> Aside from that dependency problem, is it safe to completely omit the 
>> ceph-resource-agents package for a Ceph install?
> 
> Yeah.  It just has the ocf resource agent hooks, which you probably don't 
> need.
> 
> That package is a recommends, right?  This doesn't break the ceph package 
> itself?

It's not even a recommends. Noah asked apt-get explicitly to install
ceph-resource-agents, and _that_ has a (correct) dependency on
resource-agents.

resource-agents is available even for 10.04 from the
ubuntu-ha-maintainers PPA for those who need them, btw.

Cheers,
Florian

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