[Pkg-puppet-devel] Bug#501504: Puppet (puppetca) needs the openssl package to work properly

[Matthew Palmer]

On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 09:20:32AM +0200, Stephan Hermann wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-10-08 at 11:33 +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 11:36:44PM +0200, Stephan Hermann wrote:
> > > Package: puppet
> > > Version: 0.24.5-2
> > > 
> > > Dear Colleagues,
> > > 
> > > please add the openssl package to Depends/Recommends/Suggests to the
> > > puppet package.
> > > 
> > > puppetca needs it to sign and generate keyfiles and signatures.
> > 
> > That would actually be libopenssl-ruby that's needed, and it'd be a
> > Recommends on the puppetmaster package, as that's where puppetca lives.  I
> > could have sworn that used to be in the Recommends, back in the day...
> 
> Nope...
> libopenssl-ruby doesn't work out properly...
> 
> I wonder why...I didn't have openssl installed, and puppetca didn't work
> properly...first after installing openssl puppetca worked as expected.

So, let's do some basic debugging then.  What operation(s) failed without
openssl installed, and what error(s) did you see?  The only place I can see
that the openssl binary is called from puppetca is in puppetca --verify.

- Matt