Cannot disable PERCONA_TELEMETRY during installation

[egezonberisha]

Trying to install Percona Server for MySQL 8.0.40 on Debian 12 but getting an error about percona-telemetry-agent and cannot disable it

Steps to reproduce

 $ cat /etc/os-release  | grep PRETTY_NAME
PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)"

$  apt-cache policy percona-server-server
percona-server-server:
  Installed: 8.0.28-20-1.bookworm
  Candidate: 8.0.40-31-1.bookworm

$ echo $PERCONA_TELEMETRY_DISABLE
1

$ PERCONA_TELEMETRY_DISABLE=1 apt install percona-server-server
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 percona-server-server : Depends: percona-telemetry-agent but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Please let me know if you need more information.

[idoqo]

Hi, please share the following:

• Your CPU architecture
• percona-release version: (apt-cache policy percona-release)

[egezonberisha]

CPU architecture:

$ uname -m
x86_64

Is there a way to install Percona Server without enabling telemetry? Since its a hard package dependency probably the package needs to be there also where can I find the .deb package for percona-telemetry-agent?

[idoqo]

The raw debs are in our repo archive here: https://repo.percona.com/telemetry/apt/.

You can also try to enable the percona-telemetry repo with percona-release enable telemetry.

Then go ahead and install percona-server with PERCONA_DISABLE_TELEMETRY=1. Note that this will still install the package (since it's a dependency), but no telemetry data will be sent by ps.

[pludi]

Our solution is to have our automation mask percona-telemetry-agent.service on all machines. Manually that would be systemctl mask percona-telemetry-agent.service, which can be done ahead of installation. That way the process won't even run once.