running /usr/bin/glsa-check -m affected on my system always results in: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/glsa-check", line 384, in <module> myfd.write("GLSA Summary report for host %s\n" % socket.getfqdn()) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/io.py", line 1515, in write s.__class__.__name__) TypeError: can't write str to text stream
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Not sure if this is the same error, but on python 2.7 the same line causes an error because the string passed to myfd.write() is not a unicode string. Simply prefixing a u to the string fixes that, but produces the same error later in the source. The workaround I'm using for now: glsa-check -mq affected works on python3 (you need -q because otherwise glsa-check would write byte streams to stdout which won't work).
Oops, that looks like fallout from the 2to3 run I did for the addition of python3 support last year. A friend of mine told me about this issue and I immediately felt guilty... I have a patch that makes it work again with python2 and 3 for me, but code-wise I think it would be cleaner to have a variant of the summarylist()/GLSA.dump() functions which work with a passed in text stream instead of doing the encoding themself. That way we could work exclusively with unicode objects and avoid the ugly conversions to/from bytes. I might find some time to look into this on the weekend, but since I can't promise it I'll attach the quick patch I currently have, in case anyone is interrested.
Created attachment 260820 [details, diff] Patch to avoid the type errors when sending the glsa-check mail
Patch pushed to the git repo.
This was released in gentoolkit-0.3.0
