new kernel naming convention?

[Chris Funderburg]

Arjan van de Ven wrote:

>On Thu, 2004-06-17 at 17:11, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
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>>I think this is the first time i've seen a package version with a
>>release number that used non ascii characters. It will be fun to watch
>>how this sort of thing breaks existing tools
>>that have been explicitly or implicitly assuming ascii.
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>yup that's the reason; it's a one off build to see how much of our
>infrastructure breaks with utf8 packages.....
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Strange.  "up2date" works.  "up2date -l" does not...

[chris at chris chris]$ up2date -l
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 1271, in ?
    sys.exit(main() or 0)
  File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 799, in main
    fullUpdate, dryRun=options.dry_run))
  File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 1147, in batchRun
    batch.run()
  File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/up2dateBatch.py", line 62, in run
    self.__findPackagesToUpdate()
  File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/up2dateBatch.py", line 97, in 
__findPackagesToUpdate
    plist.addGlobs(self.listOfGlobs)
  File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/packageList.py", line 157, in addGlobs
    availList = rhnPackageInfo.getAvailablePackageList()
  File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rhnPackageInfo.py", line 235, in 
getAvailablePackageList
    ret = up2dateUtils.comparePackages(availPkgsDict[pkgName], pkg)
  File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/up2dateUtils.py", line 115, in 
comparePackages
    (epoch2, version2, release2))
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u0264' in 
position 5: ordinal not in range(128)