Hi Tibor,
Tibor Simko wrote:
Hi Benoit:
On Thu, 06 May 2010, Benoit Thiell wrote:
I was running the bibupload regression tests and came across an error in
the test "bibupload - simple FFT insert, check md5 through
BibRecDocs.str()".
After some investigation, the cause of the error is that the python
module "magic" does not have a method open() (in
bibdocfile._get_magic_cookies).
On our SLC5 test box, all bibupload regression tests pass fine, and
there is no Python magic library present.
The problem is that python-magic is not readily available on CentOS and
I had to install it from a package that I found here:
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-magic/0.1
That is not the one to use. Note that the INSTALL file mentions
python-magic *Debian* package, so see
<http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/python-magic>. It basically
contains Python bindings to the magic library as compiled from the
`file' source package <http://www.darwinsys.com/file/>. So, if you want
to use it on CentOS, you probably have to recompile `file' SRPM with
support for Python bindings.
As mentioned above, we don't use Python magic bindings on SLC5 yet. So
as a simple workaround you can try to remove any Python magic library
you may have on your CentOS, and bibupload should work just fine.
It seems that in fact the simplest solution is to remove the magic
library and all the regression tests pass.
Thanks for the help.
Benoit.
