upload.cgi (Error 255)

[Jeremy Katz]

On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 23:55 +0300, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 14:58 -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> > On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 14:56 -0400, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:
> > > Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:
> > > > make new-sources FILES="common-0.15.0.tar.gz"
> > > > 
> > > > Checking : common-0.15.0.tar.gz on 
> > > > https://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/repo/extras/upload.cgi...
> > > > ERROR: could not check remote file status
> > > > make: *** [new-sources] Error 255
> > > 
> > > Please to be ignorink. My .fedora.cert is expirink.
> > 
> > ...
> > 
> > If someone wanted to send a patch for Makefile.common that checked for
> > this case and said "hey silly!  your cert expired!", I'd be glad to
> > commit it... ;-)
> 
> Not a patch nor really tested, but maybe something naive like this would
> be helpful:

Yeah, that was the thought on IRC, too, but OK is returned in the output
no matter what... and I don't really think that parsing the output from
openssl verify is likely to be something which long-term is sane to do.
I wonder if there's a simple snippet that could be done with pyOpenSSL
(since you have to have it installed for plague anyway)

Jeremy