[Freeipa-devel] import rpm causes failure during IPA caless install

[Tomas Babej]

On 01/08/2016 01:45 PM, Martin Basti wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> fix for ticket https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/5535
> requires to import rpm module
> 
> This import somehow breaks nsslib in IPA
> https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/5572
> 
> 
> We have 2 ways how to fix it:
> 
> 1) move import rpm to body of methods (attached patch)
> We are not sure how stable is this solution.
> 
> 2) use solution with rpmdevtools proposed here:
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/freeipa-devel/2016-January/msg00092.html
> This should be rock stable but it needs many dependencies (rpm-python
> too, perl)
> 
> The second way looks safer, so I would like to reimplement it, do you
> all agree or do you have better idea?
> Feedback welcome, please ASAP.
> 
> Martin^2
> 
> 

I guess this needs to be fixed on the RPM side, so we should file a
ticket there, referencing ours. As we discussed, this is most likely
insufficient cleanup performed on their side.

As far as the fix goes, I'd leverage the external tool in this situation.

Tomas