[Freeipa-devel] [freeipa PR#272][comment] Build: makerpms.sh generates Python 2 & 3 packages at the same time

[martbab]

  URL: https://github.com/freeipa/freeipa/pull/272
Title: #272: Build: makerpms.sh generates Python 2 & 3 packages at the same time

martbab commented:
"""
Yep, running `ipa ping` on Fedora 25 confirms this:

```
# ipa ping
ipa: ERROR: AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'decode'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/ipaclient/remote_plugins/__init__.py", line 109, in get_package
    plugins = api._remote_plugins
AttributeError: 'API' object has no attribute '_remote_plugins'

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/ipalib/cli.py", line 1348, in run
    api.finalize()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/ipalib/plugable.py", line 714, in finalize
    self.__do_if_not_done('load_plugins')
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/ipalib/plugable.py", line 421, in __do_if_not_done
    getattr(self, name)()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/ipalib/plugable.py", line 592, in load_plugins
    for package in self.packages:
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/ipalib/__init__.py", line 919, in packages
    ipaclient.remote_plugins.get_package(self),
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/ipaclient/remote_plugins/__init__.py", line 111, in get_package
    server_info = ServerInfo(api)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/ipaclient/remote_plugins/__init__.py", line 25, in __init__
    hostname = DNSName(api.env.server).ToASCII()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/ipapython/dnsutil.py", line 74, in ToASCII
    return self.to_text().decode('ascii')  # must be unicode string
AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'decode'
ipa: ERROR: an internal error has occurred
```
"""

See the full comment at https://github.com/freeipa/freeipa/pull/272#issuecomment-266018649