[Yum-devel] [PATCH 4/2] fs snapshot plugin: add LVM tag to allow tools to link pre and post snapshots

Mike Snitzer msnitzer at fedoraproject.org
Tue Mar 12 20:30:49 UTC 2013


On Tue, Mar 12 2013 at  3:52pm -0400,
James Antill <james at fedoraproject.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 2013-03-12 at 14:09 -0400, Mike Snitzer wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 12 2013 at 12:41pm -0400,
> > James Antill <james at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> > >  Using globals should work, the only real problem is if some python API
> > > creates multiple YumBase() instances (but although we've worried about
> > > that, nothing has ever really done it AFAIK).
> > 
> > Just adding a single global caused the plugin to fail: global foo = None
> 
>  That's a syntax error, python is much more annoying about globals than
> perl (or pretty much any other language :).
>  Also note that you can pass "-d 9" (maybe even just -v) to yum get the
> traceback from plugins, we suppress them on load, by default, as that's
> much better for users.

OK, thanks.
 
> >   But yeah, I didn't know how to store the timestamp.
> > 
> > I'll send a simpler v3 now.. thanks for your help!
> 
>  Looks fine, I've pushed it and built it in rawhide (on F19 branch too).

Much appreciated!


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