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Description of problem:

There is a bug, running the program "scap-as-rpm" from the package "openscap-utils". This is because in RHEL-6 there is python-2.6 while /usr/bin/scap-as-rpm which is a python-script, is using python-2.7 methods.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

openscap-utils-1.0.10-3.el6.x86_64

Steps to Reproduce:

Just call scap-as-rpm with any of *xccdf.xml 

# scap-as-rpm /usr/share/xml/scap/ssg/content/ssg-rhel6-xccdf.xml 

Actual results:

RPM version 4.8.0
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/scap-as-rpm", line 321, in <module>
    ret = main()
  File "/usr/bin/scap-as-rpm", line 277, in main
    rpmbuild_sources_path, rpmbuild_rpm_path, rpmbuild_srpm_path = get_rpmbuild_paths()
  File "/usr/bin/scap-as-rpm", line 112, in get_rpmbuild_paths
    sources = subprocess.check_output(["rpm", "--eval", "%{_sourcedir}"]).strip()
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'check_output'

Expected results:

The command should success without any traceback.

Additional info:

I have attached a patch that works.

Regards,
Chinmay Paradkar,
GSS, Red Hat Inc.

Fixed upstream, see https://github.com/OpenSCAP/openscap/commit/7f9889b42d5f1d462ec891576c3f635aca955d35

This would be relatively easy to downstream as a patch.

Moving to post, as this was resolved in upstream.

Verified fix on openscap-utils-1.2.8-1.el6.x86_64.

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2016-0806.html