Greetings,

 

I was curious to know if anyone has tried building SCAP content on RHEL 5? Given that the intention of the scap-security-guide rpm package is meant to be built individually on each platform (RHEL5, RHEL 6, RHEL 7, Fedora), I have attempted trying to build SCAP content on RHEL5.

 

I am running into all sorts of issues. Here’s what I gathered so far:

 

1)      The following python files include ‘with’ statements, which are not supported by the latest version of Python on RHEL5 (2.4.3-56):

 

shared/transforms/combinechecks.py

shared/transforms/combinefixes.py

shared/transforms/cpe generate.py

shared/transforms/relabelids.py

 

I was able to work through these errors, using the suggested workaround here:

 

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2755849/python-invalid-syntax-with-with-statement

 

2)      The command ‘xmlwf input/checks/*.xml’ produces syntax errors for every file processed.

 

Example:

input/checks/system_info_architecture_x86.xml:1:0: syntax error

 

3)      When the errors above are corrected in item 1, another error is generated, which has me stumped:

 

../shared/transforms/relabelids.py unlinked-fedora-xccdf.xml ssg

  File "../shared/transforms/relabelids.py", line 62

   ovalfile = ovalfiles.pop() if ovalfiles else None

                                                     ^

SyntaxError: invalid syntax

 

There could be many more issues, but this is as far as I have gotten so far.

 

I am not much of a python guru so I was hoping someone else could chime in.

 

Thanks!

 

Best regards,

 

Trey Henefield, CISSP

Senior IAVA Engineer

 

Ultra Electronics

Advanced Tactical Systems, Inc.

4101 Smith School Road

Building IV, Suite 100

Austin, TX 78744 USA

 

Trey.Henefield@ultra-ats.com

Tel: +1 512 327 6795 ext. 647

Fax: +1 512 327 8043

Mobile: +1 512 541 6450

 

www.ultra-ats.com