F14 beta python-cheetah regression

I am relaying this to the list in case anyone else gets bitten. I can't take any credit for the solution; heffer on #cobbler had already worked through this. In my case, the symptom was that when I tried to generate kickstarts, if there were any $SNIPPET macros in the kickstart template, I would see the following behaviour: [root@yoda-1 Cheetah]# cobbler system getks --name=jedi000 # *** ERROR *** # # There is a templating error preventing this file from rendering correctly. # # This is most likely not due to a bug in Cobbler and is something you can fix. # # Look at the message below to see what things are causing problems. # # (1) Does the template file reference a $variable that is not defined? # (2) is there a formatting error in a Cheetah directive? # (3) Should dollar signs ($) be escaped that are not being escaped? # # Try fixing the problem and then investigate to see if this message goes # away or changes. # # # SNIPPET() takes exactly 2 arguments (1 given) # File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/cobbler/templar.py", line 121, in render # data_out = t.respond() # # File "cheetah_DynamicallyCompiledCheetahTemplate_1288193687_92_18157.py", line 258, in respond # # File "cheetah_DynamicallyCompiledCheetahTemplate_1288193687_92_18157.py", line 84, in __errorCatcher3 # # File "<string>", line 1, in <module> # heffer tracked it down to this Cheetah commit: http://github.com/rtyler/cheetah/commit/43d7cbe361a3fe73dc20337e544144b8c... If you remove the lines added by that commit, then things work better. I don't pretend to understand this problem beyond that, though, so either cobbler or cheetah may need to be further modified to differently attack the problem that commit was addressing. -- Chad M. Huneycutt