[Spacewalk-list] Can't register a client with spacewalk 1.0

[Jan Pazdziora]

On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 01:29:34PM +0200, Jan Pazdziora wrote:
> On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 12:38:12PM +0200, Miroslav Suchý wrote:
> > >
> > >I did that change after talking to Mirek who (IIRC) did the bump to 2
> > >and change of the parameters type from list to hash as part of the
> > >"rpm installation date" feature. We primarily did that for Fedoras,
> > >but the worst thing which should have happened is that the
> > >installation dates would not show up on the server.
> > 
> > Nope. Based on that capability is sent either list or dictionary. So
> > worst thing which can happend is blow up of traceback due
> > incompatible data structure, which is afaik happening right now.
> 
> Alright. Why doesn't Spacewalk 1.0 handle the list?

It seems the server compares the client capabilities to the type of
the data sent, and that causes the mismatch.

I've now filed

	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=589100

for the issue.

-- 
Jan Pazdziora
Principal Software Engineer, Satellite Engineering, Red Hat