This is in reference to the problem Tom Brown reported that on older
platforms we're still having unicode problems -- though we already had
them addressed for EL 5 and Fedora.
http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/cobbler?p=cobbler;a=commitdiff;h=f8be7272...
This will be included in 1.6.5. The general plan is to release 1.6.5
approximately one week from now, giving us some time to pick up other
fixes if required.
So far this patch is of interest to you if you are running the cobbler
server on EL 4, and otherwise is not important.
The basics are that this version will convert json files back down to
PyYAML and use PyYAML on python versions 2.3 and before, and will use
json (which is ~300x faster) on python
2.4 and above.
Extra testing is much appreciated.
For performance reasons, yes, this does mean that it is much preferred
that you run Cobbler on at least EL 5. We'll continue to support
Cobbler on EL 4, though it will just not be
as efficient if you have a very large number of system records in it
(i.e 500-1000+). If you are running those configs, definitely look
into upgrading.
This is on the master branch now, and I'm in the process of applying it
to devel.
--Michael