Comment 13 for bug 816169

It's still an issue in oneiric.

Thanks,

Juan

On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 11:25 AM, Clint Byrum <email address hidden> wrote:

> Whats the status on this now? Has it just been worked around or is it
> still a critical issue in Ensemble?
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> Title:
> When using Ensemble, add-apt-repository no longer functions properly
>
> Status in “ensemble” package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
> Status in “python2.7” package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
> Status in “software-properties” package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> One of the changes made between Jul 22-25 caused add-apt-repository to
> quit working when being called from within an ensemble formula:
>
> + apt-add-repository ppa:cloudfoundry/ppa
>
> 2011-07-25 22:55:32,383: hook.output@ERROR: Fatal Python error:
> Py_Initialize: Unable to get the locale encoding
> File "/usr/lib/python2.7/encodings/__init__.py", line 123
> raise CodecRegistryError,\
> ^
>
> 2011-07-25 22:55:32,384: hook.output@ERROR: SyntaxError: invalid
> syntax
>
> Ensemble does not set many env vars, so this may be the culprit.
>
> When running this from within an Ensemble script on an Oneiric
> install, the error above is yielded, and while the file in
> sources.list.d is written, it uses sid for the distro rather than
> oneiric.
>
> If manually logging in and subsequently running the command,
> everything works as it should, which leads me to believe it is an env
> var issue.
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