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I do not know for sure that this is the case here but I have seen that
in the past.  Various Red Hat installation tools historically assume
that you are not feeding them some spurious stuff.  This is the case
when you are using "official" CDs or at least you burned them from
pre-made images.  If your installation trees come from various ftp
servers then assorted extra pieces - like these ls-lR.gz listings and
whatever else - may show up.  Installer scanning for packages blindly
assumes that they are in rpm format; they are not and this is causing
troubles as an expected information is not returned.  Of course a
"naive" check on a file name suffix would go a long way to prevent that
from happening even if nothing would prevent you from renaming ls-lR.gz
to ls-lR.rpm.

This also shows that an "object oriented" programming in Python is not
an automatic guarantee to prevent mistakes. :-)

  Michal

p.s.  IMO the fact that "Disk Druid" is totally broken in a concept
and design is much more serious deficiency.