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

[Ben Pfaff]

Thanks, I agree with that decision.
On Jun 26, 2014 6:22 PM, "Gurucharan Shetty" <shettyg at nicira.com> wrote:

> 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.
>