.deb install fails because drush_make can't be installed [#1309080]

I'm marking this as a support request, as I haven't yet seen anyone else complain of not being able to install aegir 1.4 via the .debs, and I have an odd setup.

I'm working on automating installs of Aegir into VirtualBox machine via Vagrant & Puppet. Manual apt-get installs had been working until recently (I believe the 1.4 .deb release). With 'env DPKG_DEBUG apt-get install aegir', I now get the following:

Setting up aegir-hostmaster (1.4+13.gbcf2cfe-1+1.gcf67491) ...
installing the Aegir frontend (Drupal with the hostmaster profile), please wait...
Unable to download drush_make-6.x-2.3.tar.gz to                      [error]
/tmp/drush_tmp_1318536414 from
http://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/drush_make-6.x-2.3.tar.gz
The drush command 'make                                              [error]
/usr/share/drush/commands/provision/aegir.make
/var/aegir/hostmaster-6.x-1.x' could not be found.
A Drupal installation directory could not be found                   [error]
Could not download platform using drush make. No platform present    [error]
Aegir 6.x-1.x automated install script
==============================================================================

The aegir user can write to /tmp. 'drush dl drush_make' results in:

No release history available for drush_make 7.x.

So specifying a version, 'drush dl drush_make-6.x-2.3' results in:

Destination directory /usr/share/drush/commands is not writable.                                                                  [error]
Project drush_make (6.x-2.3) could not be downloaded to /usr/share/drush/commands/drush_make.                                     [error]

When #1214216: Drush should prefer per-user directory to global directory when later is not writable gets in, that won't be an issue any more, but in the mean time I made /usr/share/drush/commands/ world-writeable. After all that, I got exactly the same errors, most notably

Unable to download drush_make-6.x-2.3.tar.gz to /tmp/drush_tmp_1318536414 from
http://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/drush_make-6.x-2.3.tar.gz

But the aegir user *can* wget that file to that location... curl wasn't installed though, so I'm checking that out next.

Comments

Comment #1

anarcat CreditAttribution: anarcat commented 13 October 2011 at 20:58

we're having the same issue in jenkins, btw, no idea wtf is going on... maybe something wrong on d.o?

Comment #2

ergonlogic

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CreditAttribution: ergonlogic commented 13 October 2011 at 21:17

This is just weird:

aegir@aegir:/home/vagrant$ drush dl drush_make-6.x-2.3
Unable to download drush_make-6.x-2.3.tar.gz to /tmp/drush_tmp_1318540315 from                                                    [error]
http://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/drush_make-6.x-2.3.tar.gz
aegir@aegir:/home/vagrant$ cd /tmp/
aegir@aegir:/tmp$ drush dl drush_make-6.x-2.3
Project drush_make (6.x-2.3) downloaded to /usr/share/drush/commands/drush_make.                                                  [success]
Project drush_make contains 0 modules: .

Why would drush dl fail from a home/ directory, but succeed from somewhere like /tmp?

Comment #3

omega8cc CreditAttribution: omega8cc commented 13 October 2011 at 21:28

See #1270724: Drush should not require write permissions on site directory.

You need this patch: http://drupal.org/node/1263124#comment-4957340

Comment #4

omega8cc CreditAttribution: omega8cc commented 13 October 2011 at 21:49

Or this one: http://drupal.org/node/1272820#comment-5113976 however I have tested and I'm using only that quick hack from #3 above.

Comment #5

ergonlogic

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CreditAttribution: ergonlogic commented 13 October 2011 at 22:47

Thanks omega8cc!

The patch from #3 worked like a charm. Perhaps not the "right way", but still... How do we get such a fix into Aegir? Do we need a Drush 4.6 release, or can we apply that patch (or one like it) in the Debian package?

Comment #6

anarcat CreditAttribution: anarcat commented 13 October 2011 at 23:14

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I don't think patching drush in the aegir package is wise, and i will not hijack the drush release process in the debian package, too much trouble.

the proper fix for this is to package drush make (#980152: package drush_make for Debian).

anyways, we have a workaround - just start the installer in a location you can write to! :)

Comment #7

ergonlogic

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CreditAttribution: ergonlogic commented 13 October 2011 at 23:29

just start the installer in a location you can write to

Yeah, I tried that, but it didn't work for the aegir installation, just for 'drush dl'.

Comment #8

Steven Jones CreditAttribution: Steven Jones commented 15 October 2011 at 18:17

So for now, I've popped a little fix into our debian package, that does what anarcat suggests, runs the installer from a location our aegir user can write to.

http://drupalcode.org/project/provision.git/commitdiff/b8bdaee47745ad0ce...