unicode error with mergerepos against CentOS 5.

[Steve Traylen]

Hi,

$ rpm -qf /usr/libexec/kojid/mergerepos
koji-builder-1.3.1-1.fc10.noarch

Running agaist Fedora repositories all looks well but against CentOS.

/usr/libexec/kojid/mergerepos -a x86_64 \
   -o repo  \
   -r  http://swissmirror.silyus.net/centos/5.2/os/i386/

Adding repo: http://swissmirror.silyus.net/centos/5.2/os/i386/
1/400 - Deployment_Guide-or-IN-5.2-9.el5.centos.noarch
2/400 - 1:kde-i18n-Icelandic-3.5.4-1.noarch
....
....
328/400 - system-config-users-1.2.51-4.el5.noarch
329/400 - yum-priorities-1.1.10-9.el5.centos.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
332, in doPkgMetadata
   self.writeMetadataDocs(packages)
 File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/createrepo/__init__.py", line
472, in writeMetadataDocs
   self.primaryfile.write(po.xml_dump_primary_metadata())
 File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/packages.py", line 943,
in xml_dump_primary_metadata
   msg += misc.to_unicode(self._dump_format_items())
 File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/packages.py", line 809,
in _dump_format_items
   msg += self._dump_pco('provides')
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc2 in position
38: ordinal not in range(128)

Tried with a few other repos as well, e.g the i386 one , the two
merged , ... it fails the same
though apparently  at different packages.

-- 
Steve Traylen