On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 11:59 +0100, Tim Lauridsen wrote:
> Look like there is a problem with pup/pirut and the aliases plugin.
> 
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2008-January/msg00154.html
> 
> I have answered the user to open a bz report the problem.
> 
> The problem is the
> from i18n import _
> 
> this only works when running from the cli, bacause i18n.py is located in 
> /usr/share/yum-cli and nor available without adding '/usr/share/yum-cli'
> the python path.
> yumex works because it have a i18n.py providing the same function.
> 
> a quick workaround could be adding:
> 
> try:
>      from i18n import _
> except ImportError:
>      def _(msg):
>       print msg
> or
> 
> import sys
> sys.path.insert(0,'/usr/share/yum-cli')
> 
> A hole other problem is why adding _() to the plugin, it will not work 
> because the messages will not be picked up by the yum.pot file because 
> the plugin is not part of the yum main packages and then not part of the 
>   yum translation domain.
> 
> So the best solution for now is to remove the _() calls and just do 
> normal printing or even better write to the yum.verbose_log instead.
> 
> This error raises another issues, is it a good idea to use the yum-cli 
> classes from a plugin, in a util it make sense because the what to avoid
> duplication of code.
> If there is some functionality in the cli code there is needed by 
> plugins, then it should be move to a public module yum or maybe a new 
> yum-cli one.
> 

also worthwhile is that maybe pup/pirut should not be loading
interface-changing modules like aliases.

-sv


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