firmware-tools require python2.4?

[Michael_E_Brown at Dell.com]

Yes, it is *supposed* to work on all python from RHEL3+.

This bug was found right before I went on vacation for two weeks, and I forgot about it since I've been back. I'll take a look at it tomorrow.

Fortunately, this should not affect "normal" operation, just when there is an error. So you most likely have something else going on as well.
--
Michael


-----Original Message-----
From: Kilian CAVALOTTI [mailto:kilian.cavalotti at lip6.fr]
Sent: Tue 9/25/2007 5:10 PM
To: Brown, Michael E
Cc: linux-poweredge-Lists
Subject: firmware-tools require python2.4?
 
Hi Michael,

I'm getting the following error with firmware-tools on a RHEL4 machine:

# inventory_firmware
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/inventory_firmware", line 98, in ?
    sys.exit( main() )
  File "/usr/bin/inventory_firmware", line 79, in main
    for pkg in firmwaretools.clifuncs.runInventory(ini):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/firmwaretools/clifuncs.py", 
line 83, in runSomething
    dprint(traceback.format_exc())
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'format_exc'

# rpm -q firmware-tools python
firmware-tools-1.5.4-1.el4.noarch
python-2.3.4-14.4.x86_64

It looks like traceback.format_exc() has been introduced in Python 2.4.  
I've also noticed some generator expressions which will probably make 
versions <=2.4 yell.

Is there an explicit dependency upon Python 2.4 that I may have missed, 
or are firmware-tools supposed to work with Python 2.3 too?

Cheers,
-- 
Kilian