Having float type as a base type for floating point parameters in
ipalib introduces several issues, e.g. problem with representation
or value comparison. Python language provides a Decimal type which
help overcome these issues.
This patch replaces a float type and Float parameter with a
decimal.Decimal type in Decimal parameter. A precision attribute
was added to Decimal parameter that can be used to limit a number
of decimal places in parameter representation. This approach fixes
a problem with API.txt validation where comparison of float values
may fail on different architectures due to float representation error.
In order to safely transfer the parameter value over RPC it is
being converted to string which is then converted back to
decimal.Decimal number on a server side.
https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/2260
If "make rpms" fails it doesn't clean up the rpmbuild directory it created.
The next make-lint will also fail because it finds files under rpmbuild.
make-lint is invoked by "make rpms", a vicous cycle.
The patch contains two sets of changes
Include "rpmbuild" in the IGNORE_PATHS list of make-lint.
Fix the Makefile to use $(RPMBUILD) consistently, there were a number
of hardcoded uses of "rpmbuild" as a direcotry.
Remove "List" parameter type and replace all occurences of it with appropriate
multi-valued parameter ("Str" in most cases) with csv enabled.
Add new parameter type "Any", capable of holding values of any type. This is
needed by the "batch" command, as "Str" is not suitable type for the "methods"
parameter.
ticket 2007
Report missing python packages, inform about false positives, fail
gracefully if pylint isn't installed. Fixed a bug in the ignore
list and added few more files/directories to it.
ticket 1184
