Fw: Cron <root@se03> yum-cron

[Michael Schwendt]

On Wed, 5 Nov 2008 10:21:09 +0100, Matthias Saou wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> FYI, this morning, the se03 server auto-updated plague from the epel
> repo and the scriplets apparently failed. Output is below.

> Total download size: 194 k
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/plague-server", line 35, in ?
>     import BuildMaster
>   File "/usr/share/plague/server/BuildMaster.py", line 30
>     class PeriodicJob():  # this is reused also by external patches
>                       ^
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Quick fix would be to drop the brackets and change it to

  class PeriodicJob:

till I can examine this on EL5 and/or Python 2.4. It's likely
related to the change to classic classes in Python 2.5.

P.S. Apparently, no EPEL user has tested the package.