Hi Brad,

> The yaml issue was solved by creating a script that installs python3-yaml
and other required packages before calling our python install hook. I can
provide an example if you want.

It's pretty straightforward to call apt install on python-yaml or
python3-yaml, but I please do share the script -- I'd appreciate knowing
what else might be missing :-)

Thank you,
~ PeteVG

On Fri, Jul 1, 2016 at 11:23 AM Brad Crittenden <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> > On Jul 1, 2016, at 11:15 , Pete Vander Giessen <
> [email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I ran into an issue making a version of the mariadb charm for Xenial,
> and wanted to know if others had run into it, and whether we had any best
> practices or workarounds.
> >
> > Mariadb is a non layered charm that uses hooks written in Python. Two of
> the hooks -- "install' and "config-changed", specifically -- import
> charmhelpers. Both of those hooks fail on an import error on Xenial, when
> charmhelpers attempts to import yaml.
> >
> > Pyaml isn't part of the Python standard library, but it looks like it is
> installed by default in the default Python distribution on any given series
> of Ubuntu. On Xenial, this means that yaml is automatically available to
> Python 3, but not to Python 2, which is what the scripts were using.
> >
> > The solution is either to a) port the install and config-changed hooks
> to python3, which is what I did while rushing to meet a deadline yesterday,
> or b) to install yaml in Python 2, which is the simpler solution that seems
> obvious this morning, after I am no longer worried about deadlines :-)
> (Note that solution "a" breaks the charm in trusty, as Python 3 is not the
> default version of Python for Trusty, and does not have yaml installed by
> default in that series.)
> >
> > I wanted to ping the list to see if anybody had run into similar
> problems porting charms to Xenial, however. Should I open a ticket against
> charmhelpers to add pyaml as a dependency? Are there other, better
> workarounds?
>
> We have run into this problem. Our solution was to make the charms work
> with Python3 on trusty and xenial. The yaml issue was solved by creating a
> script that installs python3-yaml and other required packages before
> calling our python install hook. I can provide an example if you want.
>
> —Brad
>
>
>
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