mergerepos issue

[Jitesh Shah]

Aaah .. some RPMs have unicode in their 'provides' tag which causes this
problem. Temporarily, I have removed those from the external repo and it
works fine :)

Jitesh


On Fri, 2009-06-05 at 06:46 -0700, Jitesh Shah wrote:
> Hi all,
> I have attached an external repo to one of my build tags. After
> attaching the repo, I issued a "koji regen-repo <tag>". This is what I
> get:
> 
> 1348/2199 - kde-l10n-Walloon-4.2.2-1.fc11.noarch
> 1349/2199 - kde-l10n-Lithuanian-4.2.2-1.fc11.noarch
> 1350/2199 - 1:perl-Error-0.17015-2.fc11.noarch
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/libexec/kojid/mergerepos", line 241, in <module>
>     main(sys.argv[1:])
>   File "/usr/libexec/kojid/mergerepos", line 236, in main
>     merge.write_metadata()
>   File "/usr/libexec/kojid/mergerepos", line 216, in write_metadata
>     mdgen.doPkgMetadata()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/createrepo/__init__.py", line 364, in doPkgMetadata
>     self.writeMetadataDocs(packages)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/createrepo/__init__.py", line 527, in writeMetadataDocs
>     self.primaryfile.write(po.xml_dump_primary_metadata())
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/packages.py", line 1015, in xml_dump_primary_metadata
>     msg += misc.to_unicode(self._dump_format_items())
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/packages.py", line 894, in _dump_format_items
>     msg += self._dump_pco('provides')
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/packages.py", line 919, in _dump_pco
>     msg += pcostring
> UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe3 in position 28: ordinal not in range(128)
> 
> Unicode error?
> I don't get it!
> Any pointers?
> 
> Regards,
> Jitesh
> 
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