mergerepo fails with PCDATA invalid Char value 8

[Mike Bonnet]

Steve Traylen wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Steve Traylen <steve at traylen.net> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>  Got koji basically working for me over the last couple of weeks. Was
>> very keen to
>>  try its new external repository support.
>>
>>  Starting with a fresh instance I made a tag (dist-slc5)  containing two repos.
>>
>>   koji add-external-repo -t dist-slc5 -p 10 "slc5-64-base"
>> http://linuxsoft.cern.ch/cern/slc5X/x86_64/yum/os
>>   koji add-external-repo -t dist-slc5 -p 10 "slc5-32-base"
>> http://linuxsoft.cern.ch/cern/slc5X/i386/yum/os
>>
>>  and then tried to make a koji repo from that.
>>
>>   koji regen-repo dist-slc5
>>
>>   This called
>>
>>   /usr/libexec/kojid/mergerepos -a i386 -b
>> /mnt/koji/repos/dist-slc5-build/189/i386/blocklist -o
>> /tmp/koji/tasks/556/556/repo \
>>           -g /mnt/koji/repos/dist-slc5-build/189/groups/comps.xml -r
>> http://linuxsoft.cern.ch/cern/slc5X/x86_64/yum/os/ \
>>           -r http://linuxsoft.cern.ch/cern/slc5X/i386/yum/os/
>>
>>  resulting in as below. Any ideas ?
> 
> To hopefully answer my own question. Is this because these slc yum
> repositories do not contain the sqlite files thats that mergerepo makes
> use of.
> Looking at CentOS and ScientificLinux neither of these look to make
> use of the '-d' option to createrepo to generate the sqlite files.
> Is there a way around this or we have to ask CentOS to generate
> the sql files?

The error occurs when parsing other.xml.  I would check your external 
repos to see if other.xml passes XML validation successfully.

> Of course maybe it is something else entirely?
> Steve
> 
> 
>>   Steve
>>
>>
>>
>> process:19630): GLib-WARNING **: GError set over the top of a previous
>> GError or uninitialized memory.
>> This indicates a bug in someone's code. You must ensure an error is
>> NULL before it's set.
>> The overwriting error message was: Parsing other.xml error: PCDATA
>> invalid Char value 8
>>
>> 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
>> 332, in doPkgMetadata
>>    self.writeMetadataDocs(packages)
>>  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/createrepo/__init__.py", line
>> 475, in writeMetadataDocs
>>    clog_limit=self.conf.changelog_limit))
>>  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/packages.py", line 959,
>> in xml_dump_other_metadata
>>    msg += "%s\n</package>\n" %
>> misc.to_unicode(self._dump_changelog(clog_limit))
>>  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/packages.py", line 927,
>> in _dump_changelog
>>    if not self.changelog:
>>  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/packages.py", line 423, in <lambda>
>>    changelog = property(fget=lambda self: self.returnChangelog())
>>  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/sqlitesack.py", line 225,
>> in returnChangelog
>>    self._loadChangelog()
>>  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/sqlitesack.py", line 202,
>> in _loadChangelog
>>    self.sack.populate(self.repo, mdtype='otherdata')
>>  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 184, in populate
>>    dobj = repo_cache_function(xml, csum)
>>  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/sqlitecachec.py", line 60, in
>> getOtherdata
>>    self.repoid))
>> TypeError: Parsing other.xml error: PCDATA invalid Char value 8
>>
>>
>>   Steve
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Steve Traylen
>>
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