[CASSANDRA-17516] Official Cassandra packages are missing runtime dependency procps-ng

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Normal
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 3.0.27, 3.11.13, 4.0.4, 4.1-alpha1, 4.1
• Component/s: Packaging
• Bug Category: Packaging
• Severity: Normal
• Complexity: Low Hanging Fruit
• Discovered By: User Report
• Platform: All
• Since Version: NA

Source Control Link

https://github.com/apache/cassandra/commit/84bc0e8c3b126199653ba34a7aea81999de89dde

Test and Documentation Plan

run CI, test packages

• Assignee: Brandon Williams
• Reporter: Dylan Richardson

Authors

Brandon Williams

Reviewers

Berenguer Blasi

• Created: 02/Apr/22 16:16
• Updated: 27/May/22 19:24
• Resolved: 13/Apr/22 12:13

Description

Nodetool depends on the free command-line utility, but the official Cassandra RPM does not explicitly install it. free comes from procps-ng, so this package should be made an explicit dependency in the RPM's spec file.

Here's what you get when invoking nodetool without free installed:

bash-5.1# nodetool status
/etc/cassandra/conf/cassandra-env.sh: line 21: free: command not found
expr: syntax error: unexpected argument '2'
expr: syntax error: unexpected argument '2'
/etc/cassandra/conf/cassandra-env.sh: line 59: [: : integer expression expected
/etc/cassandra/conf/cassandra-env.sh: line 63: [: : integer expression expected
/etc/cassandra/conf/cassandra-env.sh: line 67: [: : integer expression expected
expr: syntax error: unexpected argument '4'
/etc/cassandra/conf/cassandra-env.sh: line 81: [: : integer expression expected

I have attached a patch that should fix this issue.