"./nuxeoctl mp-remove..." installs bundles?

[Marwane_K_A_]

Hi,

Here's some kind of user story related to bundle management. It started by installing by mistake Nuxeo Drive 1.1.2, then realizing that that version targets Nuxeo 5.7.3 and not the 5.6 platform I'm using.

From this point I've been unable to restore my platform to a usable state. At some point Nuxeo seems to have installed Nuxeo DM 5.7.3 by itself, and now the bundles management seems broken:

$> ./nuxeo mp-list

hotfix     started	nuxeo-5.6.0-HF00 (id: nuxeo-5.6.0-HF00-1.0.0)
....
hotfix     started	nuxeo-5.6.0-HF23 (id: nuxeo-5.6.0-HF23-1.0.0)
 addon  downloaded	nuxeo-dm (id: nuxeo-dm-5.6.0)
 addon     started	nuxeo-dm (id: nuxeo-dm-5.7.3)
 addon  downloaded	nuxeo-drive (id: nuxeo-drive-1.0.4)
 addon     started	nuxeo-drive (id: nuxeo-drive-1.1.2)
 addon     started	nuxeo-social-collaboration (id: nuxeo-social-collaboration-5.6.0)
 addon  downloaded	nuxeo-social-collaboration (id: nuxeo-social-collaboration-5.7.3)
 addon  downloaded	nuxeo-template-rendering (id: nuxeo-template-rendering-5.6.0)
 addon  downloaded	nuxeo-template-rendering (id: nuxeo-template-rendering-6.1.2)

$ ./nuxeoctl mp-remove nuxeo-dm-5.7.3 nuxeo-drive-1.1.2 nuxeo-social-collaboration-5.7.3 nuxeo-template-rendering-6.1.2

Package nuxeo-dm-5.7.3 is not available on platform version cap-5.6.
Do you want to relax the constraint (yes/no)? [no] yes

First unexpected behavior: why is this asking me to relax the constraint? all I want is to remove bundles I already have. Anyway:

Relax restriction to target platform cap-5.6 because of package nuxeo-dm-5.7.3

Dependency resolution:
  Installation order: nuxeo-dm-5.7.1/nuxeo-drive-1.1.1
  Packages to upgrade: nuxeo-dm:5.7.3, nuxeo-drive:1.1.2

Do you want to continue (yes/no)? [yes] 

All I wanted was to remove bundles, yet it forces me to install Nuxeo DM 5.7.1 with... Nuxeo Drive for Nuxeo 5.7.2, weird.

If I confirm, and try to remove these afterwards:

$> ./nuxeoctl mp-remove nuxeo-dm-5.7.1 nuxeo-drive-1.1.1

Package nuxeo-dm-5.7.1 is not available on platform version cap-5.6.
Do you want to relax the constraint (yes/no)? [no] yes
Relax restriction to target platform cap-5.6 because of package nuxeo-dm-5.7.1

Dependency resolution:
  Installation order: nuxeo-dm-5.7.3/nuxeo-drive-1.1.2/nuxeo-social-collaboration-5.7.3
  Packages to upgrade: nuxeo-dm:5.7.1, nuxeo-drive:1.1.1, nuxeo-social-collaboration:5.6.0

He wants me to install Nuxeo DM 5.7.3. Infinite loop!

I can fix this for a while by using ./nuxeoctl mp-install nuxeo-dm-5.6.0 nuxeo-drive-1.0.4 instead. But even after all the right bundles are restored, I can't remove the 5.7.1 ones without upgrading everything to 5.7.3.

Troubles are back if I want to install something else:

$> ./nuxeoctl mp-install nuxeo-web-mobile-dm

Dependency resolution:
  Installation order: nuxeo-drive-1.1.1/nuxeo-template-rendering-6.0.1/nuxeo-web-mobile-dm-1.2.0
  Packages to upgrade: nuxeo-template-rendering:5.6.0, nuxeo-drive:1.0.4

Uninstalling nuxeo-drive-1.0.4
Installing nuxeo-drive-1.1.1
Installing nuxeo-template-rendering-6.0.1
Installing nuxeo-web-mobile-dm-1.2.0

I never asked for updating Nuxeo Drive.

$> ./nuxeoctl mp-remove nuxeo-web-mobile-dm

Dependency resolution:
  Uninstallation order: nuxeo-web-mobile-dm-1.2.0

Uninstalling nuxeo-web-mobile-dm-1.2.0
Removing nuxeo-web-mobile-dm-1.2.0

$> ./nuxeoctl mp-list

hotfix     started	nuxeo-5.6.0-HF00 (id: nuxeo-5.6.0-HF00-1.0.0)
...
hotfix     started	nuxeo-5.6.0-HF23 (id: nuxeo-5.6.0-HF23-1.0.0)
 addon  downloaded	ekium (id: ekium-2.4.0-SNAPSHOT)
 addon  downloaded	nuxeo-dm (id: nuxeo-dm-5.6.0)
 addon     started	nuxeo-dm (id: nuxeo-dm-5.7.1)
 addon  downloaded	nuxeo-drive (id: nuxeo-drive-1.0.4)
 addon     started	nuxeo-drive (id: nuxeo-drive-1.1.1)
 addon     started	nuxeo-social-collaboration (id: nuxeo-social-collaboration-5.6.0)
 addon  downloaded	nuxeo-template-rendering (id: nuxeo-template-rendering-5.6.0)
 addon     started	nuxeo-template-rendering (id: nuxeo-template-rendering-6.0.1)

Nuxeo DM has actually upgraded to 5.7.1 without even telling me. I guess I'll have to hack into registry.xml or simple start from a fresh distrib.

Conclusion, the package management should probably be made a bit dumber (at least during deletion), it seems to try to hard at dealing with dependencies, leading to broken situations like this one.

[bruce_Grant]

Something I learned the hard way

[Marwane_K_A_]

Wise man talking! Fortunately it was only a development instance, and it didn't take too long to restart from a fresh install.

[Marwane_K_A_]

I just discovered the --nodeps option, which can help a lot in those sort of situations.

[Julien_Carsique · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Interesting feedback, thank you. Here is some information:

• Using a package ID (nuxeo-dm-5.7.3) does not behave the same as with a package name (nuxeo-dm). For instance, with mp-remove/mp-uninstall, it means a downgrade or upgrade, not a removal.
• The target platform relax is effectively annoying, and maybe useless, when removing things. It's a possible improvement to replace it with a simple warning when the platform already contains unadapted packages. => NXP-13100
• The automatic upgrade comes from the dependency solver which provides an "ideal" solution to the request, including upgrades. It's a wanted improvement to change that point: NXBT-652.
• Another useful and related improvement is the ability to lock/pin on a given version: NXP-13051.

Note you should:

• Preferably use package names, not ID. Unless you explicitly want something specific.
• Avoid use of --relax and --nodeps, unless you know what you want and what you do. Therefore, avoid installing unadapted packages.
• mp-purge, mp-init and mp-reset may help to workaround with all this, especially when upgrading the server (see NXP-8014).
• Do not hack the registry. In your case, it's still easy to cleanup everything and come back to the initial server status; hacking the registry would only definitely break your server management.

Feel free to ask for improvements, new commands or options and to report your use cases. We need administrators' feedback on such tools as the Launcher/nuxeoctl.

Thanks,

[Marwane_K_A_]

Hi Julien,