yum 2.1.0

Lorenzo Luconi Trombacchi lorenzo at reality.it
Fri Sep 3 18:00:05 UTC 2004


The createrepo command works only on Fedora Core 2?

I tried it on Fedora Core 1 and Red Hat 9 but I got an error like this one:

7/105 - mozilla-js-debugger-1.7.2-0.2.0.i386.rpmTraceback (most recent 
call last):
   File "/usr/share/createrepo/genpkgmetadata.py", line 488, in ?
     main(sys.argv[1:])
   File "/usr/share/createrepo/genpkgmetadata.py", line 423, in main
     doPkgMetadata(cmds, ts)
   File "/usr/share/createrepo/genpkgmetadata.py", line 286, in 
doPkgMetadata
     node = dumpMetadata.generateXML(basedoc, baseroot, formatns, mdobj, 
cmds['sumtype'])
   File "/usr/share/createrepo/dumpMetadata.py", line 507, in generateXML
     value = utf8String(value)
   File "/usr/share/createrepo/dumpMetadata.py", line 92, in utf8String
     x = unicode(string, 'ascii')
TypeError: coercing to Unicode: need string or buffer, NoneType found


Can I do something to fix this problem?

Unfortunately my repository are on Fedora Core 1 or RH9 machines! :-(

Lorenzo




> On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 15:04 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> 
>>seth vidal (skvidal at phy.duke.edu) said: 
>>
>>>yum-arch will be returning to yum for people who want to use the new yum
>>>but have to maintain old repos.
>>>
>>>it's in the works now.
>>
>>I could have sworn Paul was just going to patch it into createrepo.
>>
> 
> 
> no, not into createrepo. That would be bad. putting into yum would be
> better.
> 
> -sv
> 
> 
> 





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