[Spacewalk-list] reposync Non-UTF Encoding in RPMs

[Jan Pazdziora]

On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 06:44:31PM -0400, Flaherty, Patrick wrote:
> I just switched over to a postgres backend for my spacewalk 1.3 setup.
> So far, there have been a couple centos 5 packages that don't import
> correctly when I spacewalk-repo-sync from the command line.
> 
> # rpm -qf `which spacewalk-repo-sync`
>  spacewalk-backend-tools-1.3.57-1.el5
> 
> Packages:
> * aspell-is-0.51.1-2.2.2-50.i386
> * man-pages-da-0.1.1-12.1.1-0.noarch
> 
> http://pastebin.com/047jy19W
> 
> Both of those packages appear to have non-utf8 characters in filename
> paths which I guess could be the the problem. I'm capture the output of
> the import, there may be more packages that show the same behavior.
> 
> So I can file the bug in the right place, does this look like:
> * a spacewalk bug?
> * a spacewalk postgres backend bug?
> * a centos packaging bug?
> 
> What other information should I include in my bug report?

We actually have this tracked as bug 658296.

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Jan Pazdziora
Principal Software Engineer, Satellite Engineering, Red Hat