[tools] mrepo 0.8.5 issue - "rhnget: cannot import name xmlrpclib"

[Lindsay Todd]

This wasn't working on CentOS 4.7 either, although strangely it did work
on RedHat 4.7.  Some experimentation showed it worked if I moved aside
the rhn and up2date_client code supplied with mrepo.  Some further work
resulted in the attached patch, which makes this work for me on my
CentOS 4.7 system, and I suspect it will help with a CentOS 5 system. 
Actually, the mystery to me right now is why did it work on RedHat 4.7
without this patch?  But I don't have time to sate my curiosity right now.



Christer Edwards wrote:
> I have been working on setting up mrepo for the past few days based on
> some of the scattered documentation found on google.  I have yet to find
> a solution to one issue, which I'm hoping can be resolved here.
>
> [root at repo ~]# mrepo -uvvv
> Verbosity set to level 3
> Using configfile /etc/mrepo.conf
> Reading config file /etc/mrepo.conf
> Setting option confdir in section [main] to: /etc/mrepo.conf.d
> Setting option srcdir in section [main] to: /var/ftp/pub
> Setting option wwwdir in section [main] to: /var/www/mrepo
> Setting option mailto in section [main] to: root at repo
> Setting option smtp-server in section [main] to: localhost
> Setting option arch in section [main] to: i386
> rhel5-i386: Updating Red Hat 5.2 Server (i386)
> rhel5-i386: Mirror packages from rhn:///rhel-i386-server-5 to
> /var/ftp/pub/rhel5-i386/updates
> rhnget: cannot import name xmlrpclib
> mrepo: Mirroring failed for rhn:///rhel-i386-server-5 with message:
>   Failed with return code: 256
>
> I am running CentOS 5.2 x86_64 as the platform.  I have copied the
> systemid and RHNSA-CA-CERT from a rhel5.2 i386 machine into the
> appropriate locations.
>
> also, note that I had to install the pyOpenSSL package to resolve an
> earlier issue.
>
> Does anyone have any tips on how I can resolve this issue?  I will
> eventually need to be mirroring rhel/centos 3.9, 4.7 & 5.2, but I can't
> even get 5.2 working yet.
>
> thanks in advance,
> christer
>
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