[Spacewalk-list] Status of Solaris support

[Michael Mraka]

Pierre Casenove wrote:
% Hello,
% Did you have time to review the patch?
% 
% Now that I got patch working, I wanted to try patch_cluster.... and
% ZipFile class is complaining!
% # solaris2mpm --tempdir=/data/solaris/tmp/ 10_Recommended.zip
% Opening archive, this may take a while
% Bad magic number for central directory
% Error creating mpm for /data/solaris/10_Recommended.zip:
% <zipfile.BadZipfile instance at 0x2ad1050c5e18>
% 
% The "Bad magic number for central directory" appears during the
% creation of ZipFile object (before my code modification.
% The zip file is correct as "unzip" command is uncompressing it without
% any problem.
% 
% I'm starting to wonder: is using ZipFile class really better thant old
% code, which called unzip command?
% 
% Anyway, any help would be greatly appreciated on this one too.

AFAIR this means patch zip file is newer than you zip command can
understand. Solution is to upgrade zip package.

% Pierre

Regards,

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Michael Mráka
Satellite Engineering, Red Hat