Re: build on sles10

[Michael DeHaan]

Shuichi Ihara wrote:
>  Hi,
>
>  I'm attempting to build cobbler on sles10. I installed some packages
>  that are needed to build the cobbbler. The building is fine, but when I did
>  "cobbler sync" on sles10, I can see below errors. Do I still have any missing
> packages?
>
>  # cobbler sync
>  exceptions.ValueError
>  invalid literal for float(): no package provides redhat
>    File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/cobbler/cobbler.py", line 65, in
> main
>      return BootCLI().run(sys.argv)
>     File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/cobbler/cobbler.py", line 44, in
> run
>      return self.loader.run(args)
>     File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/cobbler/commands.py", line 69, in
> run
>      return fn.run()
>     File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/cobbler/modules/cli_misc.py", line
> 211, in run
>      return self.api.sync()
>     File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/cobbler/api.py", line 326, in sync
>      sync = self.get_sync()
>     File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/cobbler/api.py", line 340, in
> get_sync
>      return action_sync.BootSync(self._config,dhcp=self.dhcp,dns=self.dns)
>     File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/cobbler/action_sync.py", line 61,
> in __init__
>      self.pxegen      = pxegen.PXEGen(config)
>     File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/cobbler/pxegen.py", line 55, in
> __init__
>      self.bootloc     = utils.tftpboot_location()
>     File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/cobbler/utils.py", line 609, in
> tftpboot_location
>      (make,version,rest) = os_release()
>     File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/cobbler/utils.py", line 581, in
> os_release
>      return (make, float(version), rest)
>
>  Thanks
>  -Ihara
>
>     
This should be easy to fix.

What is happening is that cobbler is trying to figure out what OS 
version it's running on, and it does this by looking for the 
redhat-release package.

Basically we just need to add some code to that function to make it 
tolerate SLES and do the right thing.   Right now the code in question 
tolerates EL, Fedora, and Debian -- it just doesn't know about SuSE yet.

If you know Python and would like to volunteer to fix up cobbler so it's 
installable on SLES, that's welcome, otherwise someone else with a SLES 
box does need to take a look at this as I don't have one around.

We definitely do support SuSE as an install target and it would be nice 
to see it installable there as well.

--Michael
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