CKAN gets confused by dependency

[ghost]

Selected mods to install:

The mods are downloaded and preped to be installed... then this shows up:

Which is freaking weird as that, you will notice, was already selected... but it gets weirder. Reaffirming my desire to get the stock config, it appears that everything worked...

...except, what's that? Go to changes? But they're all applied!

Attempting to install that sets you back to the second image. No idea what's happening.

[pjf]

Oh my. I'm guessing something odd is going on during relationship resolution. :/

We start off with a pretty big changeset here; if it's convenient for you, is it possible to see you can reproduce the behaviour with a smaller number of mods selected for install? That might give us an insight as to exactly where things are going weird.

[ghost]

What the fuck. I figured it out. It ONLY happened when FAR wanted to add the default ships... the issue was that I had nuked the %KSP%/Ships folder. When I installed FAR separately, it gave me a "could not find part of path" error. Upon resolving the issue (creating a directory structure identical to the normal KSP ships folder), FAR installed correctly.

HOWEVER. To verify that that was the issue, I uninstalled FAR and installed FAR + Distant Object Enhancement.... same error. So I tried installing FAR again. Since the folders were empty after it uninstalled FAR... it hammered my recreated ships folder flat, causing the error to occur again when I tried to reinstall it.

TL;DR: Missing KSP folder structure confused FAR and masqueraded as a dependency error. Fixing folder structure let stuff get installed correctly, but it turns out CKAN will remove important directories if they get emptied during uninstall.

(p.s. recreating the folder a second time let FAR and DOE install without issue)
EDIT: p.p.s. deployment of the "don't tase me bro!.txt" files in the troubled folders has quelled the rebellion.

[pjf]

@skymarshal : You are awesome.

Since the folders were empty after it uninstalled FAR... it hammered my recreated ships folder flat

Oh dang, nooo! CKAN, don't do that.

Opening a bug, because this is definitely one. (And which should be easy to fix)

[ghost]

I can honestly say I would never have guessed that to be the cause. As the true culprit has been apprehended--and I got all the mods to install--I am closing this.