744801 - please upgrade python-simplejson package on aus4-dev nodes to 2.1.2

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Infrastructure & Operations Graveyard :: WebOps: Other, task)

Description

[[e-mail] (:bhearsum)]

Now that the code is autoupdating, and we've worked around bug 738389, we're getting a new error that's caused by the simplejson package being too old. These nodes have 2.0.9, but we need 2.1.2.

Comment 1

[Brandon Burton [:solarce]]

This package comes from RedHat's repos. 

Providing a new version would require us to roll our own rpm and we'd have to either name it something else and install it custom via Puppet, or evaluate what upgrading it across the board would do to other environments/apps

I'm cc'ing Jake and Corey for comment

Comment 2

[[e-mail] (:bhearsum)]

OK, I'll see how hard it would be to workaround in the code, too...it sounds like that might end up being the easier solution.

Comment 3

[Brandon Burton [:solarce]]

Thanks, let us know, as I suspect it's one of those libraries people may start asking for a newer version of and having either a workaround or an upgrade path would be good

Comment 4

[[e-mail] (:bhearsum)]

OK, so we were getting errors about JSONDecodeError, which wasn't added until 2.1.0. For the Balrog usage, it looks like we can use ValueError instead. It might reduce our error granularity in some cases, but it's OK for now. Can we look to do this at some point, though? I filed bug 744815 for the code workaround.

Comment 5

[Brandon Burton [:solarce]]

As a general rule, we try to avoid replacing RH packages, as it adds burden on us to track and keep the package updated for security fixes.

I see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=800345 which requests an update to 2.1.x, I've requested a RH BZ account and will give that bug a +1 once I get a login from RH, if there is any movement on it, I'll update this bug, but that's all we can do for now.

Comment 6

[Brandon Burton [:solarce]]

Commented https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=800345#c5 , will see what they say