[Spacewalk-list] server error while pushing .debs

[Simon Lukasik]

On 09/26/2011 05:10 PM, Miroslav Suchý wrote:
> On 09/26/2011 04:46 PM, Simon Lukasik wrote:
>> On 09/12/2011 02:10 PM, Razvan Cosma wrote:
>>> After adding "import sys",
>>> On the Ubuntu client:
>>> Internal server error 500 Internal Server Error
>>> Error pushing
>>> /mirror/UB10x64/pool/main/a/akonadi/akonadi-dbg_1.3.1-0ubuntu3_amd64.deb: Error
>>> Message:
>>>     Unable to load package
>>> Error Class Code: 50
>>> On the Spacewalk server:
>>> File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/StringIO.py", line 270, in getvalue
>>> self.buf += ''.join(self.buflist)
>>> UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xfc in position
>>> 696: ordinal not in range(128)
>>>
>>> So the error is not random, it's just that the .deb metadata has an
>>> ümlaut in changelog.gz
>>>
>>
>> Hello Razvan,
>>
>> Unfortunately, I cannot reproduce this exact issue on my setup. Which OS
>> are you using?
>>
>>
>> Nevertheless, on my PostgreSQL Spacewalk nightly on RHEL6, akonadi
>> package (from [1]) fails to upload as well. The cause is that akonadi
>> package is archived with lzma compression.
>>
>>     # strings akonadi-dbg_1.3.1-0ubuntu3_amd64.deb | grep data
>>     data.tar.lzma   1271183373  0     0     100644  3199804
>>
>> While the python-debian-0.1.16-4.el6.noarch from @epel does support only
>> gz and bz2 compressions.
>>
>> The minimal reproducer was:
>>
>>     from debian.debfile import DebFile
>>     x = DebFile("akonadi-dbg_1.3.1-0ubuntu3_amd64.deb")
>>
> 
> 
> That could be reason. Debian recently moved to lzma compression. But the
> extension should not be problem. Even the upstream of python-debian has
> PART_EXTS = ['gz', 'bz2']   # possible extensions
> 
> Hmm. Looking at my Debian:
> mirek at triple:/tmp$ python
> Python 2.6.7 (r267:88850, Aug  3 2011, 11:33:52)
> [GCC 4.6.1] on linux2
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>> from debian.debfile import DebFile
>>>> x = DebFile("akonadi-dbg_1.5.3-2_amd64.deb")

Could you do the same for package at [1]?

>>>>
> mirek at triple:/tmp$ strings akonadi-dbg_1.5.3-2_amd64.deb |grep data
> data.tar.gz     1306360362  0     0     100644  10939114
> 
> So *my* Debian (pure Debian) has tar.gz extension. Can this be somehow
> Ubuntu specific?
> 
Indeed.
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Simon Lukasik    Systems Management QA
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