[et-mgmt-tools] Koan on a RHEL3 client

[Michael DeHaan]

Jim Wildman wrote:
> I need/want to use koan to rebuild a rhel3 server. However it errors
> out like this.

I thought that used to work on RHEL 3 -- apparently I must have switched 
to optparse in the last 6 months or so?
optparse is new in Python 2.3, and is just there to parse the command line.

Short term, I don't have a quick fix for this, but I'll remove the 
dependency as this is supposed to work.

--Michael


>
> [root at ino0l073 root]# rpm -q koan
> koan-0.5.0-1.el3.rf
> [root at ino0l073 root]# cat /etc/redhat-release Red Hat Enterprise Linux 
> ES release 3 (Taroon Update 6)
> [root at ino0l073 root]# koan -l --server=10.128.164.145
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "/usr/bin/koan", line 38, in ?
> import koan.app as app
> File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/koan/app.py", line 22, in ?
> import optparse
> ImportError: No module named optparse
> [root at ino0l073 root]#
>
> koan run from a Centos 5 box (which happens to be the cobbler server) 
> yields
> [root at mrdevjw1 pxelinux.cfg]# cat /etc/redhat-release CentOS release 5 
> (Final)
> [root at mrdevjw1 pxelinux.cfg]# koan -l --server=10.128.164.145
> lrh4v4-i386-private
> lrh4v4-public
> [root at mrdevjw1 pxelinux.cfg]# rpm -q koan
> koan-0.5.0-1.el5.rf
>
> I don't see anything else in the wiki or by googling.
>
> suggestions?
>
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