[cobbler] yaml.parser.ParserError after upgrade to 2.4.7

Orion Poplawski orion at cora.nwra.com
Thu Aug 21 22:33:02 UTC 2014


But the method of creation changed between 2.4.6 and 2.4.7 with:

commit f78979a8463e5519c21ea40dfebc438ff3c07b99
Author: Jörgen Maas <jorgen.maas at gmail.com>
Date:   Fri Jul 25 09:47:58 2014 +0200

     Fix broken gitdate, gitstamp values in version file.

diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 970b4f9..dd5bd46 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
  #!/usr/bin/env python
-import glob, os, sys, time, yaml
+import glob, os, sys, time
+from ConfigParser import ConfigParser
  from distutils.core import setup, Command
  from distutils.command.build_py import build_py as _build_py
  import unittest
@@ -77,24 +78,24 @@ def gen_manpages():
  #####################################################################

  def gen_build_version():
-    fd = open(os.path.join(OUTPUT_DIR, "version"),"w+")
-    gitdate = "?"
-    gitstamp = "?"
      builddate = time.asctime()
-    if os.path.exists(".git"):
-       # for builds coming from git, include the date of the last commit
-       cmd = 
subprocess.Popen(["/usr/bin/git","log","--format=%h%n%ad","-1"],stdout=subprocess.
-       data = cmd.communicate()[0].strip()
-       if cmd.returncode == 0:
-           gitstamp, gitdate = data.split("\n")
-    data = {
-       "gitdate" : gitdate,
-       "gitstamp"      : gitstamp,
-       "builddate"     : builddate,
-       "version"       : VERSION,
-       "version_tuple" : [ int(x) for x in VERSION.split(".")]
-    }
-    fd.write(yaml.dump(data))
+    cmd = subprocess.Popen(["/usr/bin/git", "log", "--format=%h%n%ad", "-1"], 
stdout=subprocess
+    data = cmd.communicate()[0].strip()
+    if cmd.returncode == 0:
+        gitstamp, gitdate = data.split("\n")
+    else:
+        gitdate = "?"
+        gitstamp = "?"
+
+    fd = open(os.path.join(OUTPUT_DIR, "version"), "w+")
+    config = ConfigParser()
+    config.add_section("cobbler")
+    config.set("cobbler","gitdate", gitdate)
+    config.set("cobbler","gitstamp", gitstamp)
+    config.set("cobbler","builddate", builddate)
+    config.set("cobbler","version", VERSION)
+    config.set("cobbler","version_tuple", [ int(x) for x in VERSION.split(".")])
+    config.write(fd)
      fd.close()

  #####################################################################



On 08/18/2014 02:41 PM, Jörgen Maas wrote:
> Not very likely, the file is generated by setup.py when building/installing.
>
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 10:11 PM, Greg Chavez <greg.chavez at gmail.com
> <mailto:greg.chavez at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     I pulled down a backup of the version file from a few days ago and solved
>     the issue:
>
>     root at io-ns-03:~> cat /etc/cobbler/version
>     builddate: Tue Apr 22 15:30:11 2014
>     gitdate: '?'
>     gitstamp: '?'
>     version: 2.4.4
>     version_tuple: [2, 4, 4]
>
>     So like the 2.6 version file snuck into the 2.4.7 package?
>
>
>     On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 3:56 PM, Jörgen Maas <jorgen.maas at gmail.com
>     <mailto:jorgen.maas at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>         The format of the version file changed in 2.6.x (it's now basically
>         ini format using python ConfigParser)
>
>
>         On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 5:14 PM, Greg Chavez <greg.chavez at gmail.com
>         <mailto:greg.chavez at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>             Thanks for your reply, Alan.
>
>             I didn't do a find/xargs/grep for version_tuple!  Drat, bad
>             troubleshooting. But in any case, even converting that file to
>             YAML doesn't seem to help, I just get more errors.
>
>             Another interesting thing, the format of /etc/cobbler/version in
>             2.6.3 is not in YAML either.
>
>             Whatever. This is only affecting the Web console, so I can stay in
>             business while I stand up 2.6 on a new server and replicate.
>
>             --Greg
>
>
>             On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 10:49 AM, Alan Evangelista
>             <alanoe at linux.vnet.ibm.com <mailto:alanoe at linux.vnet.ibm.com>> wrote:
>
>                 On 08/18/2014 11:27 AM, Greg Chavez wrote:
>
>                     So I upgraded the cobbler and cobbler-web yum packages
>                     from 2.4.4 to 2.4.7, in preparation for upgrading to 2.6
>                     (this is a RedHat 5.6 system).  Cobbler works fine from
>                     the command line, but I get an error when I attempt to
>                     login to the Web console.  In /var/log/cobbler, I get this
>                     every time I access:
>
>
>                          Fri Aug 15 14:59:08 2014 - INFO | Exception occured:
>                          yaml.parser.ParserError
>                          Fri Aug 15 14:59:08 2014 - INFO | Exception value:
>                     expected
>                          '<document start>', but found '<scalar>'
>                            in "<string>", line 2, column 1:
>                              version_tuple = [2, 4, 7]
>                              ^
>
>
>                 /etc/cobbler/version has incorrect format, it should be in
>                 YAML.. Example:
>
>                 builddate: Thu Jan 30 21:42:10 2014
>                 gitdate: Mon Dec 9 11:08:16 2013 -0800
>                 gitstamp: 2181fa3
>                 version: 2.5.0
>                 version_tuple: [2, 5, 0]
>
>                 It is possible you'll have conflicts with other files. I'd
>                 recommend backing up important data and making a a clean
>                 installation.
>
>
>                 Regards,
>                 Alan Evangelista
>
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