incompatible of package between puppet-agent and mcollective

[lkthomas]

$ apt-get install puppet-agent
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  cpp-5 ipsvd libcc1-0 libisl15 libksi1 libmatrixssl1.8 libmongo-client0
  libsysfs2 libusbip0 ruby-stomp ruby-systemu
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  mcollective mcollective-client mcollective-common
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  puppet-agent
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 3 to remove and 196 not upgraded.
Need to get 14.3 MB of archives.
After this operation, 75.6 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n
Abort.

$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS
Release:    14.04
Codename:   trusty

so how come when I install puppet-agent, my mcollective have to remove?!

[petems]

Mcollective is now bundled in the puppet-agent package: https://docs.puppet.com/puppet/latest/reference/about_agent.html#release-contents-puppet-agent-1x

[lkthomas]

Yeah, I understand that, what should I change on my code so that it doesn't purge my puppet-agent?

[supernovae]

I'm going to set "manage_packages=false" and see if that fixes puppet4.. had to laugh when i ran this and puppet uninstalled itself because the mco package is marked incompatible.

[madAndroid]

We're experiencing this as well with puppet4 - main issue for us, is ensuring plugins are installed, since they don't appear to be included with the AIO package.

[khaefeli]

manage_packages=false helps.
maybe you can set the default for Debian to false?