On Mon, 2009-03-09 at 17:47 +0000, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > On Sun, Mar 08, 2009 at 02:06:59PM +1300, Andrew Ruthven wrote: > > > If request-tracker3.6 is installed then the RT::Config from rt3.6 is > > loaded by mistake. This causes major fail. > > > > In our case apache2 wouldn't start because of it. This is the error > > message in the Apache2 error.log file: > > > > [Sun Mar 08 11:01:36 2009] [error] Can't locate object method "Config" via > > packa > > ge "RT" at /usr/share/request-tracker3.8/libexec/webmux.pl line 100.\nBEGIN > > fail > > ed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/request-tracker3.8/libexec/webmux.pl > > line > > 102.\nCompilation failed in require at (eval 243) line 1.\n > > > > Cheers! > > I'm guessing that this is because somewhere in the Apache configuration > you are already PerlRequire'ing > /usr/share/request-tracker3.6/libexec/webmux.pl which is in turn pushing > /usr/share/request-tracker3.6/lib onto @INC.
You are correct, there was.
> We could add a note in the READMEs that you shouldn't do this, but I
> don't think there's anything we could change in the package to stop this
> being a problem (which is a shame, because I suspect that it'll a common
> problem).
I don't think that'll necessarily help, since there are multiple
versions of the package in the repository it is a natural assumption
that you can use multiple versions. Perhaps webmux.pl needs to have
versioned depends on the RT and RT::Config modules? If it gets the
wrong version then it can abort with a suitable error message? Rather
than just dying.
> The rt3.8-apache2 package provides not only modperl2 configuration but
> also fastcgi and speedycgi, which *can* be used in parallel with
> multiple versions
Ahhh...
> If that wasn't the case, I'd consider Conflicts: rt3.6-apache2, but
> even that would only be a clue as to where the problem was since the
> conffile could still be there, being included by mistake.
>
> Have I missed anything?
I don't think conflicting with rt3.6-apache2 would help in this case,
it'd need to conflict with request-tracker3.6 to remove the modules that
are causing issues.
Cheers!
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