unicode error with mergerepos against CentOS 5.

[Seth Vidal]

On Fri, 27 Mar 2009, Steve Traylen wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Steve Traylen <steve at traylen.net> wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Seth Vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, 18 Mar 2009, Steve Traylen wrote:
>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> the metadata you're pulling in was written with a much older createrepo
>>>>> which was less picky about some of the data it wrote back out. So you end
>>>>> up
>>>>> with some pkgs with dodgy data in the changelogs.
>>>>
>>>> Mirroring in CentOS5 and then recreating from scratch the repodirs with a
>>>> Fedora
>>>> 10 createrepo the the repository is created spitting out some warnings.
>>>
>>> What ver of yum and createrepo do you have when you're running both
>>> createrepo and mergerepo?
>>
>> $ rpm -qf /usr/bin/yum \
>>              /usr/bin/mergerepo \
>>              /usr/bin/createrepo \
>>              /usr/libexec/kojid/mergerepos
>> yum-3.2.21-2.fc10.noarch
>> createrepo-0.9.6-3.fc10.noarch
>> createrepo-0.9.6-3.fc10.noarch
>> koji-builder-1.3.1-1.fc10.noarch
>>
>
> Hi Seth,
>
> Is there any workaround or anything for this?
>
>    Steve

I doubt it'll help much - but try 0.9.7 and 3.2.22 that  are in rawhide. 
We fixed a few more unicode explosions but I'm sure we're still missing 
some

-sv