I was attempting to add the Nexus Cookbook into my Cheffile today, and I’m
getting the following exception (snipped for readability):
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/1.9.1/tsort.rb:152:in block in tsort_each': topological sort failed: ["nexus", "artifact"] (TSort::Cyclic) from /opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/1.9.1/tsort.rb:183:inblock (2
levels) in each_strongly_connected_component’
from /opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/1.9.1/tsort.rb:210:in block (2 levels) in each_strongly_connected_component_from' from /opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/1.9.1/tsort.rb:219:ineach_strongly_connected_component_from’
…
Some Googling seems to indicate the problem might be because of the circular
dependencies.
Nexus Metadatab.rb has: depends “artifact”, "~> 0.11.0"
Artifact Metadatab.rb has: depends “nexus”, “>= 0.17.0”
Are such circular dependencies valid in Chef in general, or this problem
specific to Librarian?
Shy of forking, and hacking up the depends, is there something more basic I’m
missing to get this working?
Thanks
David,
The problem is indeed the circular dependencies. Or Librarian-Chef tsorting
the dependencies after successfully resolving them. Although a generic
dependency-installer does need to install in tsorted order, as does a
cookbook uploader.
Cheers,
Jay
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 2:30 PM, davidpetzel@gmail.com wrote:
I was attempting to add the Nexus Cookbook into my Cheffile today, and I'm
getting the following exception (snipped for readability):
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/1.9.1/tsort.rb:152:in block in tsort_each': topological sort failed: ["nexus", "artifact"] (TSort::Cyclic) from /opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/1.9.1/tsort.rb:183:in block (2
levels) in each_strongly_connected_component'
from /opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/1.9.1/tsort.rb:210:in block (2 levels) in each_strongly_connected_component_from' from /opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/1.9.1/tsort.rb:219:in each_strongly_connected_component_from'
......
Some Googling seems to indicate the problem might be because of the
circular
dependencies.
Nexus Metadatab.rb has: depends "artifact", "~> 0.11.0"
Artifact Metadatab.rb has: depends "nexus", ">= 0.17.0"
Are such circular dependencies valid in Chef in general, or this problem
specific to Librarian?
Shy of forking, and hacking up the depends, is there something more basic
I'm
missing to get this working?
Thanks
Thanks Jay,
So in your opinion which would be the appropriate project to open an issue
on?
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 4:06 PM, Jay Feldblum y_feldblum@yahoo.com wrote:
David,
The problem is indeed the circular dependencies. Or Librarian-Chef
tsorting the dependencies after successfully resolving them. Although a
generic dependency-installer does need to install in tsorted order, as does
a cookbook uploader.
Cheers,
Jay
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 2:30 PM, davidpetzel@gmail.com wrote:
I was attempting to add the Nexus Cookbook into my Cheffile today, and I'm
getting the following exception (snipped for readability):
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/1.9.1/tsort.rb:152:in block in tsort_each': topological sort failed: ["nexus", "artifact"] (TSort::Cyclic) from /opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/1.9.1/tsort.rb:183:in block (2
levels) in each_strongly_connected_component'
from /opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/1.9.1/tsort.rb:210:in block (2 levels) in each_strongly_connected_component_from' from /opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/1.9.1/tsort.rb:219:in each_strongly_connected_component_from'
......
Some Googling seems to indicate the problem might be because of the
circular
dependencies.
Nexus Metadatab.rb has: depends "artifact", "~> 0.11.0"
Artifact Metadatab.rb has: depends "nexus", ">= 0.17.0"
Are such circular dependencies valid in Chef in general, or this problem
specific to Librarian?
Shy of forking, and hacking up the depends, is there something more basic
I'm
missing to get this working?
Thanks
David,
It's just bad form for two projects to take circular dependencies on each
other. Regardless of whether the surrounding tools can or can't handle
circular dependencies, it's just something to avoid doing. So I would open
the issue with the two cookbook projects.
Circular dependencies can often be broken by splitting one of the two
projects. Suppose A depends on B and B depends on A. But suppose A has two
parts internally, A1 and A2, where A2 depends on B but A1 does not, and B
would depend on A1 and not on A2 if there were a way for it to do so. Then
if A were split up into A1 and A2, that would break the circular dependency.
Cheers,
Jay
On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 8:53 AM, David Petzel davidpetzel@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks Jay,
So in your opinion which would be the appropriate project to open an issue
on?
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 4:06 PM, Jay Feldblum y_feldblum@yahoo.comwrote:
David,
The problem is indeed the circular dependencies. Or Librarian-Chef
tsorting the dependencies after successfully resolving them. Although a
generic dependency-installer does need to install in tsorted order, as does
a cookbook uploader.
Cheers,
Jay
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 2:30 PM, davidpetzel@gmail.com wrote:
I was attempting to add the Nexus Cookbook into my Cheffile today, and
I'm
getting the following exception (snipped for readability):
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/1.9.1/tsort.rb:152:in block in tsort_each': topological sort failed: ["nexus", "artifact"] (TSort::Cyclic) from /opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/1.9.1/tsort.rb:183:in block (2
levels) in each_strongly_connected_component'
from /opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/1.9.1/tsort.rb:210:in block (2 levels) in each_strongly_connected_component_from' from /opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/1.9.1/tsort.rb:219:in each_strongly_connected_component_from'
......
Some Googling seems to indicate the problem might be because of the
circular
dependencies.
Nexus Metadatab.rb has: depends "artifact", "~> 0.11.0"
Artifact Metadatab.rb has: depends "nexus", ">= 0.17.0"
Are such circular dependencies valid in Chef in general, or this problem
specific to Librarian?
Shy of forking, and hacking up the depends, is there something more
basic I'm
missing to get this working?
Thanks