[tools] up2date on FC7

[Dag Wieers]

On Tue, 26 Jun 2007, Drew Myers wrote:

> Thanks again Johan.
> 
> For anyone following along at home, this is not going well.  I installed
> up2date (with a requirement of rhnlib from redhat and pyopenssl from
> fedora). 
> 
> I then noticed that rhnlib was installed against python2.3, rather than
> the python2.5 distributed with fc7. I created a link
> /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rhn
> /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rhn, and tried again.
> 
> I now get the following error:
> 
> 4ES-x86_64: Updating Red Hat Advanced Server 4 U8 (x86_64)
> 4ES-x86_64: Mirror packages from rhns:///rhel-x86_64-es-4-extras to
> /var/mrepo/4ES-x86_64/extras
> rhnget: SafeTransport instance has no attribute '_use_datetime'
> mrepo: Mirroring failed for rhns:///rhel-x86_64-es-4-extras with
> message:
>   Failed with return code: 256
> 
> Any ideas?

Time to implement our own RHN library based on stock xmlrpc ?
If up2date has no stable API, I don't want to rely on it. At least the RHN 
access they cannot 'just' change :)

Kind regards,
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