Description of problem: Rpm's python3 API has been totally braindamaged all this time but people are only noticing now that it's starting to get used. We're changing rpm to return all string data as surrogate-escaped utf-8 python strings everywhere (instead of bytes with unknown encoding that the API doesn't otherwise even accept, see bug 1631292). This makes most rpm-scripts written for python2 just work with python3 too (from the rpm pov). Most software that has kept python2 compatibility are automatically compatible with the fixed API, but unfortunately python3-only users like anaconda need fixing for the new behavior. As the broken rpm versions are widely in use, it's best to keep compatibility with both initially. There's at least one place in anaconda (kernel_version_list()) that needs fixing to replace the hardcoded .decode('utf-8') call with something like this: def b2s(data): if isinstance(data, bytes): return data.decode('utf-8') return data This is the Fedora counterpart of bug 1689909.
I was pointed out that the bug referred to in the message is a private RHEL bug, sorry about that. The public, Fedora side counterpart with the background story is the one blocked by this, ie https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1693751
Hi, I assume that the fix is not required for Fedora 30, since the bug is opened for rawhide. In that case, we will implement the fix after the release of Fedora 30. Is that ok?
The string change is not planned for F30, but we'd really appreciate if you could fix it in rawhide sooner than F30 release, just to be able to move on with the rpm change and give it maximal soak-time in rawhide.
Fixed in a pull request: https://github.com/rhinstaller/anaconda/pull/1935
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 31 development cycle. Changing version to '31'.
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 31 development cycle. Changing version to 31.
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