Bug 96804 – Saving a profile with gtkfe works but loading it again fails.

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Release Media

[Description Steven Mertens 2005-06-22 13:44:35 UTC]

The problem :

Saving a profile with gtkfe works but loading it again fails.

The reason :

It fails in the add_partitions_device_partition() methode of the
InstallProfile class.
The int conversion on the free partition minor fails.

 => part_entry['minor'] = int(part_entry['minor'])

In case of a part_entry with type free,  part_entry['minor'] returns
a string like '2.03125'. A int conversion on such a string fails.

I wrote a very tiny patch that checks the part type, if free it uses
float() for conversion , if something else it uses int().


example :


>>> mystring = '2.03125'
>>> int(mystring)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
ValueError: invalid literal for int(): 2.03125
>>> float(mystring)
2.03125
>>> int(float(mystring))
2




Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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[Comment 1 Steven Mertens 2005-06-22 13:46:10 UTC]

Created attachment 61735 [details, diff]
tiny patch against GLIInstallProfile.py

tiny patch against GLIInstallProfile.py

against snapshot 20050622

[Comment 2 Andrew Gaffney (RETIRED) 2005-06-22 14:24:41 UTC]

Instead of the int/float distinction, I just changed the int() to a float().
Representing a whole number with a float isn't a problem. Fixed in cvs. Thanks.

[Comment 3 Jeffrey Forman (RETIRED) 2006-03-24 13:46:30 UTC]

Moving to Release Media/Installer.