On 10/10/06, Bryan Cardillo dillo@pcbi.upenn.edu wrote:
On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 03:59:42PM +0100, Will McDonald wrote:
Bear with me, this is CentOS related. :)
[...]As far as I can tell, python, sqlite and python-sqlite are all identical.
Obviously there some date/time issues but I can't pinpoint exactly what. Can anyone shed any light or prod me in the right direction? The Whitebox systems *do* still have a smattering of Whitebox related RPMs...
what about mx? this rpm provides python modules which do date/time type conversion (and more), yet you haven't listed it above. perhaps its installed on one machine, but not the other? on my centos 4 machine: $ rpm -q mx mx-2.0.5-3
Bingo! Cheers dude.
I was just trawling through strace output. On the functioning machine (or at least, the one on which the code behaves as I expected) mx isn't installed, on the others it is.
"Working" system:
[root@willspc python]# strace ./testcase.py 2>&1 | wc -l 1033 [root@willspc python]# rpm -q mx package mx is not installed
"Broken" system:
[root@devmon1 python]# strace ./testcase.py 2>&1 | wc -l 1475 [root@devmon1 python]# rpm -q mx mx-2.0.5-3 [root@devmon1 python]#
And a lot of those divergences appeared to be mx related though I hadn't put 2 & 2 together until now.
On another previously "broken" system, after the removal of mx and python-MySQL
[root@stella python]# rpm -e mx MySQL-python [root@stella python]# ./testcase.py [('2006-10-10',), ('2006-10-11',)]
I guess it's upstream but it might be useful if that package was named python-mx, though it could equally be argued that I should've just done
$ rpm -q --whatrequires python
Anyway, that lets me know what the differences are, and I can either code to take it into account, or just require/remove mx as necessary. Thanks Bryan.
Will.