[ovs-dev] [PATCH 2/2] test-ovsdb: Workaround unicode bug in Python 2.4.x.

Gurucharan Shetty shettyg at nicira.com
Fri Jun 27 01:22:24 UTC 2014


On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 10:15 AM, Gurucharan Shetty <shettyg at nicira.com> wrote:
>>
>> There's a lot of weirdness around python and encodings that varies from
>> version to version and from one Python configuration to the next.  Did
>> you try this on a non-XenServer system too, say Ubuntu?  Also you might
>> want to try on the Arch distro (I think that's Ethan uses) because I
>> seem to recall that it uses one of the oddball Python configurations
>> that has caused trouble in the past.
>>
> I did try it on Ubuntu and it works fine. (The people on that bug link
> also recommend the same method as a workaround.)
>
> Ethan,
>  If you still use Arch distro, can you apply the following the patch
> on your tree and run a 'make check' to see if it is not a problem?
> http://patchwork.openvswitch.org/patch/4713/  (or the v2 of this patch
> from the mailing list)

I spoke with Ethan offline and he no longer uses Arch Distro. I
decided to push this as it fixes a bug in Xenserver and does not break
anything on Ubuntu.



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