fix the parted-version selection code, f14 has parted.version broken

[bootmanager.git] / source / steps / InstallPartitionDisks.py

diff --git a/source/steps/InstallPartitionDisks.py b/source/steps/InstallPartitionDisks.py
index 81d100d..7a31eea 100644 (file)
--- a/source/steps/InstallPartitionDisks.py
+++ b/source/steps/InstallPartitionDisks.py
@@ -183,13 +183,20 @@ def single_partition_device( device, vars, log ):
     """
 
     # two forms, depending on which version of pyparted we have
+    # v1 does not have a 'version' method
+    # v2 and above does, but to make it worse, 
+    # parted-3.4 on f14 has parted.version broken and raises SystemError
     try:
-        version=parted.version()
+        parted.version()
         return single_partition_device_2_x (device, vars, log)
-    except:
+    except AttributeError:
+        # old parted does not have version at all
         return single_partition_device_1_x (device, vars, log)
-
-        
+    except SystemError:
+        # let's assume this is >=2
+        return single_partition_device_2_x (device, vars, log)
+    except:
+        raise
 
 def single_partition_device_1_x ( device, vars, log):