[Bug 816169] [NEW] When using Ensemble, add-apt-repository no longer functions properly

[Brian Thomason]

Public bug reported:

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 at 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 at 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.

** Affects: software-properties (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Title:
  When using Ensemble, add-apt-repository no longer functions properly

Status in “software-properties” package in Ubuntu:
  New

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 at 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 at 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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