simplestreams failing on release feed - TypeError

[Neil Wilson]

New 13.10 installation, with simplestreams package and a copy of the 'hook-debug' script in bin in the home directory.

When I run

sstream-sync --max 1 --verbose --hook=bin/debug http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/releases

I get

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/sstream-sync", line 163, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/bin/sstream-sync", line 156, in main
    tmirror.sync(smirror, cfg['path'])
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/simplestreams/mirrors/__init__.py", line 85, in sync
    return self.sync_index(reader, path, data, content)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/simplestreams/mirrors/__init__.py", line 230, in sync_index
    self.sync(reader, path=epath)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/simplestreams/mirrors/__init__.py", line 83, in sync
    return self.sync_products(reader, path, data, content)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/simplestreams/mirrors/__init__.py", line 358, in sync_products
    self.insert_products(path, target, content)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/simplestreams/mirrors/command_hook.py", line 141, in insert_products
    content=content, extra={'path': path})
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/simplestreams/mirrors/command_hook.py", line 201, in call_hook
    tfile.write(content)
TypeError: 'str' does not support the buffer interface

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: simplestreams 0.1.0~bzr318-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: User Name 3.11.0-12.19-generic 3.11.3
Uname: Linux 3.11.0-12-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Oct 18 16:22:19 2013
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: simplestreams
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Scott Moser (smoser)]

Neil,
  Thanks for the bug I'll take a look at this.
 the simple fix is opening the file as 'w' rather than 'wb', but i need to look to make sure that is sane.

[Scott Moser (smoser)]

also reproducible with
./tools/tenv sstream-sync --max 1 --verbose --hook=./tools/hook-debug ./examples/foocloud/streams/v1/index.json

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package simplestreams - 0.1.0~bzr323-0ubuntu1

---------------
simplestreams (0.1.0~bzr323-0ubuntu1) trusty; urgency=low

  * New upstream snapshot.
    * fix bug with sstream-sync (LP: #1241711)
    * fix bug in glance mirror (LP: #1243433)
    * fix odd behavior bug when filtering. The result was that if you
      had ever run with a filter, subsequent runs with modified filter
      would not see different results (LP: #1238227).
 -- Scott Moser <email address hidden> Tue, 22 Oct 2013 19:35:38 -0400

[Scott Moser (smoser)]

This bug is believed to be fixed in simplestreams in version 0.1.0. If this is still a problem for you, please make a comment and set the state back to New

Thank you.