FS#76963 - "taskd" package missing dependency on "which"

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by Nicholas Flynt (zeta0134) - Friday, 30 December 2022, 15:13 GMT
Last edited by Jelle van der Waa (jelly) - Saturday, 03 June 2023, 17:35 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages
Status Closed
Assigned To Christian Rebischke (Shibumi)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:

During a fresh taskd setup, following https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Taskd#Setup, keys and certificates must be generated. The shell script at /usr/share/doc/taskd/pki/generate relies on the "which" utility to discover relevant key generation tools, but this is not listed as a dependency. Without "which", the script fails with:

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[root@redacted pki]# ./generate
./generate.ca: line 4: which: command not found
./generate.ca: line 4: which: command not found
ERROR: No certtool found
./generate.server: line 4: which: command not found
./generate.server: line 4: which: command not found
ERROR: No certtool found
./generate.crl: line 4: which: command not found
./generate.crl: line 4: which: command not found
ERROR: No certtool found
./generate.client: line 4: which: command not found
./generate.client: line 4: which: command not found
ERROR: No certtool found
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Manually installing "which" is sufficient to work around the issue, and post setup the daemon seems to run just fine without it. An optional dependency seems appropriate here.

Additional info:
* package version(s)
- taskd-1.1.0-5-x86_64
- which-2.21-5-x86_64

Steps to reproduce:
- On a freshly installed Arch system, `pacman -S taskd`
- (optional, default are fine) Edit the variables in /usr/share/doc/taskd/pki/vars
- Change directory to /usr/share/doc/taskd/pki/
- Run ./generate
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Closed by  Jelle van der Waa (jelly)
Saturday, 03 June 2023, 17:35 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  Added optional dep to which
taskd-1.1.0-6-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
Comment by Toolybird (Toolybird) - Friday, 30 December 2022, 22:04 GMT
"which" used to part of the group "base". Then "base" was converted to a meta pkg [1] and "which" wasn't included. This explains why lots of these "missing which dependency" issues have cropped up.

[1] https://github.com/archlinux/svntogit-packages/commit/9d470705f3cc19c87fb2adeebeeac59a9b253cf9

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