On Thu, 2010-01-14 at 15:38 +0800, jimmy cho wrote: > Hi, > > First I just want to say I find this a very useful project. In > implementing it I encounter a few issue which I would like to > document here. > > I am working with a bunch of RHEL 4 and RHEL 5 servers. I > installed the epel RPM packages for EL4 and EL5. > > I noticed that > > #func testserver call rpms inventory > > returns a empty list. for both EL4 and EL5 servers. After some > digging I found that the inventory function in rpms.py is > commented out so it will never work. > Removing the comments did not help. > > OK so I installed func-0.25 on the overlord and minion with the > certmaster also updated to 0.25. > > Now I find that RpmModule does not load. > > I checked on the rpms.py > > line 56 mi = (ts.dbMatch() if pattern == '' else self.glob(pattern)) > > has a syntax error. On EL5 uses python-2.4. could this be the problem ? > > I commented out the entire verify function ( which has the > problematic line of code ) and > now the rpms inventory works very nicely. Yes, I suppose many of the modules installed in func have been developed and tested using fedora (that is actually using python 2.6). But naturally provide a package for ELx that does not work because wasn't tested it's not a good way to proceed. I think we can try to rewrite the "syntax error" lines to make the compatibility with python 2.4. > > I notice another thing about the verify function. > > I believe that the RpmModule is suppose to provide the ability to > handle rpm function for systems that do > use yum like EL4. > > So it is not appropriate for the verify function in rpms.py to use > the yum module to verify the packages. Completely agreed with you! Bye Marco > > thats all > > thks & rgds > > Jimmy > > _______________________________________________ > Func-list mailing list > Func-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/func-list -- Dott. Ing. Mornati Marco Byte-Code s.r.l via Antonio Cechov, 1 San Giuliano Milanese (MI) E-Mail: mmornati@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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