[Spacewalk-list] For information: python-sgmlop package and spacewalk XMLRPC problems

[Jan Pazdziora]

On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 11:18:09AM +0200, Miroslav Suchý wrote:
> On 05/12/2011 10:34 AM, Miroslav Suchý wrote:
> >  I will investigate if there is some other
> > possibility to make it work together with python-sgmlop.
> 
> OK. To make it work, I will have to change xmlrpclib.py which is in
> python. :(
> And since python 2.7 the sgmlop is not supported/used any way. So this
> does not have sense.
> 
> It seems it affect Fedora 13 (2 months before EOL) and RHEL5 and RHEL6.
> 
> Fedora 14,15 use only internal python parser and do not even try to
> import sgmlop.
> 
> I will put conflict there...
> 
> Commited as 5b825e9e569a147eb4a487d9c021d32558fd95d4

Can't you .hasattr() it or do similar check, rather than address
it on the .spec level? That Conflict might make things harder for
people who will be upgrading and will have the package installed.

If the use of python-sgmlop is optional anyway (on RHELs), is there a
way *not* to use it even if the package itself is installed?

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