Strange repodata/other.xml issue...

[seth vidal]

On Thu, 2008-10-02 at 19:49 +0400, Dmitry Butskoy wrote:
> Sometimes the changelog entries contain "<" and/or ">" symbols. For 
> example, a fragment of the changelog of "k3b" package:
> 
> > * Wed Oct  6 02:00:00 2004 Harald Hoyer <harald at redhat.com> 0:0.11.17-1
> > - version 0.11.17
> > - revert the dao -> tao change
> > - add the suid feature to every app automatically
> 
> note the "->" in the line:
> 
> > - revert the dao -> tao change
> 
> When I create my local repodata ("cd somewhere; createrepo ."), the 
> correspond fragment appears in the "repodata/other.xml.gz" file, in the 
> form of:
> 
> > - revert the dao -> tao change
> 
> Then, when I update my repodata by "createrepo --update .", I receive an 
> error:
> 
> > Scanning old repo data
> > Indexed 2997 base nodes
> > Indexed 3001 filelist nodes
> > /var/ftp/.4/fedora-8/fedora/i386/./repodata/other.xml.gz:118813: 
> > parser error : Detected an entity reference loop
> > - revert the dao -> tao change
> >                       ^
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "/usr/share/createrepo/genpkgmetadata.py", line 722, in <module>
> >     main(sys.argv[1:])
> >   File "/usr/share/createrepo/genpkgmetadata.py", line 645, in main
> >     mdgen.doPkgMetadata(directory)
> >   File "/usr/share/createrepo/genpkgmetadata.py", line 161, in 
> > doPkgMetadata
> >     basefile, flfile, otherfile, opts)
> >   File "/usr/share/createrepo/readMetadata.py", line 41, in __init__
> >     self.scan()
> >   File "/usr/share/createrepo/readMetadata.py", line 64, in scan
> >     root = libxml2.parseFile(self.files['other']).getRootElement()
> >   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/libxml2.py", line 1279, in 
> > parseFile
> >     if ret is None:raise parserError('xmlParseFile() failed')
> > libxml2.parserError: xmlParseFile() failed
> 
> IOW, the initial "full" createrepo run seems OK, the subsequent run with 
> "--update" is failed.
> 
> Any comments? Whether it is some bug in createrepo, or in some yum 
> components?
> 

it's a bug in createrepo and it has been fixed in upstream but not put
into a release, yet.

-sv