[Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk kickstart generating & snippet compiling

[Martin Zehetmayer]

Hi, 

I have solved the issue - the problem was in the package of the cheetah templating engine I used. 
My spacewalk server runs on RHEL6.1 with the following cheetah version: 
python-cheetah.x86_64                 2.4.1-1.el6 

I crosschecked the files on my cobbler installation which was initially on rhel 6.1 beta. The only 
difference I found was in the Template.py file: 

--- snip --- 
ve /usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/Cheetah/Template.py
--- /usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/Cheetah/Template.py.save 2011-05-20 18:04:15.107222270 +0200
+++ /usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/Cheetah/Template.py      2011-05-20 18:04:23.274678303 +0200
@@ -1549,6 +1549,18 @@
                                       mainMethodName=mainMethodName,
                                       compilerSettings=compilerSettings,
                                       keepRefToGeneratedCode=True)
+
+        if not self.__class__ == Template:
+            # Only propogate attributes if we're in a subclass of 
+            # Template
+            for k, v in self.__class__.__dict__.iteritems():
+                if not v or k.startswith('__'):
+                    continue
+                ## Propogate the class attributes to the instance 
+                ## since we're about to obliterate self.__class__
+                ## (see: cheetah.Tests.Tepmlate.SubclassSearchListTest)
+                setattr(self, k, v)
+
         self.__class__ = templateClass
         # must initialize it so instance attributes are accessible
         templateClass.__init__(self,
--- snip --- 

After patching the Template.py on my spacewalk installation the parsing of kickstart files with the SNIPPET() 
define worked. 
Question is: what changed the Template.py? I suppose it was a part of rhel 6.1b which doesn't make it in rhel 6.1
but I need to check that. Anyone else has an idea? 

regards, 

  Martin