Hi Mike and Seth, With the latest 1.0 daily that has urlgrabber, we've been able to do some tests. So on the machine behind the firewall we get python urlgrabber.py ftp://server.com/path/to/file local_copy <hangs> pythons2 urlgrabber.py ftp://server.com/path/to/file local_copy <suceeds> So we thought recompiling yum with python2 would work, and yes, the urlgrabber works, but the rest of yum can't talk to rpm-python # yum list nedit Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/sbin/yum", line 22, in ? import yummain File "yummain.py", line 21, in ? File "clientStuff.py", line 22, in ? ImportError: No module named rpm # So, is there a way to have just one componet to use python2, or a variable to set somewhere that would make the rest of yum work right? I'm not asking for you to rewrite yum, I guess I'm more asking for general python help. Thanks Troy Michael Stenner wrote: >On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 09:45:07AM -0500, Troy Dawson wrote: > > >>seth vidal wrote: >> >> >>>>Well, I just tried ftp from my home machine which is behind an >>>>iptables-based nat-int firewall. I KNOW active FTP isn't going to >>>>work from there. From this I conclude that urllib2 uses passive ftp >>>>(as I suspected). It leaves me at a loss as to what the problem could >>>>be with yum/urlgrabber/urllib2. >>>> >>>>As I said, I'd be willing to pursue this if you think it's a problem >>>>on "our end". I recommend you start with these two things: >>>> >>>>1) use some other ftp client from that machine to grab the same file >>>> >>>>2) use urlgrabber directly to grab it, as in >>>> >>>> python2 urlgrabber.py ftp://server.com/path/to/file local_copy >>>> >>>>See what happens with those. >>>> >>>> >>>I bet he's using 1.0 - which doesn't have urlgrabber, yet, and doesn't >>>have urllib2 at all :) >>> >>> >>Doh ... I forgot to say that. Yes, this is a 1.0 yum. I've got to look, this >>might even be a 0.9x yum. >> >> > >Eeek. OK. Then I recommend you work around it for now. If you want >to see how it _will_ behave when urlgrabber gets into the 1.0 series, >just grab urlgrabber from a 2.0 release and do waht I described >above. Make sure you run python1.5, though. It will be exactly the >same file. It's written to work for 1.5 and 2.x (although with some >added capabilities for 2.x). > >If it works, then it will probably work in a soon-to-come 1.x series >release. If it doesn't work, then that's interesting and we should >fix it. (this is all assuming that it's a yum issue in the first >place). > > -Michael > > >
