mergerepo fails with PCDATA invalid Char value 8

[Steve Traylen]

On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Steve Traylen <steve at traylen.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>  Got koji basically working for me over the last couple of weeks. Was
> very keen to
>  try its new external repository support.
>
>  Starting with a fresh instance I made a tag (dist-slc5)  containing two repos.
>
>   koji add-external-repo -t dist-slc5 -p 10 "slc5-64-base"
> http://linuxsoft.cern.ch/cern/slc5X/x86_64/yum/os
>   koji add-external-repo -t dist-slc5 -p 10 "slc5-32-base"
> http://linuxsoft.cern.ch/cern/slc5X/i386/yum/os
>
>  and then tried to make a koji repo from that.
>
>   koji regen-repo dist-slc5
>
>   This called
>
>   /usr/libexec/kojid/mergerepos -a i386 -b
> /mnt/koji/repos/dist-slc5-build/189/i386/blocklist -o
> /tmp/koji/tasks/556/556/repo \
>           -g /mnt/koji/repos/dist-slc5-build/189/groups/comps.xml -r
> http://linuxsoft.cern.ch/cern/slc5X/x86_64/yum/os/ \
>           -r http://linuxsoft.cern.ch/cern/slc5X/i386/yum/os/
>
>  resulting in as below. Any ideas ?

To hopefully answer my own question. Is this because these slc yum
repositories do not contain the sqlite files thats that mergerepo makes
use of.
Looking at CentOS and ScientificLinux neither of these look to make
use of the '-d' option to createrepo to generate the sqlite files.
Is there a way around this or we have to ask CentOS to generate
the sql files?

Of course maybe it is something else entirely?
Steve


>
>   Steve
>
>
>
> process:19630): GLib-WARNING **: GError set over the top of a previous
> GError or uninitialized memory.
> This indicates a bug in someone's code. You must ensure an error is
> NULL before it's set.
> The overwriting error message was: Parsing other.xml error: PCDATA
> invalid Char value 8
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "/usr/libexec/kojid/mergerepos", line 241, in <module>
>    main(sys.argv[1:])
>  File "/usr/libexec/kojid/mergerepos", line 236, in main
>    merge.write_metadata()
>  File "/usr/libexec/kojid/mergerepos", line 216, in write_metadata
>    mdgen.doPkgMetadata()
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/createrepo/__init__.py", line
> 332, in doPkgMetadata
>    self.writeMetadataDocs(packages)
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/createrepo/__init__.py", line
> 475, in writeMetadataDocs
>    clog_limit=self.conf.changelog_limit))
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/packages.py", line 959,
> in xml_dump_other_metadata
>    msg += "%s\n</package>\n" %
> misc.to_unicode(self._dump_changelog(clog_limit))
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/packages.py", line 927,
> in _dump_changelog
>    if not self.changelog:
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/packages.py", line 423, in <lambda>
>    changelog = property(fget=lambda self: self.returnChangelog())
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/sqlitesack.py", line 225,
> in returnChangelog
>    self._loadChangelog()
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/sqlitesack.py", line 202,
> in _loadChangelog
>    self.sack.populate(self.repo, mdtype='otherdata')
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 184, in populate
>    dobj = repo_cache_function(xml, csum)
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/sqlitecachec.py", line 60, in
> getOtherdata
>    self.repoid))
> TypeError: Parsing other.xml error: PCDATA invalid Char value 8
>
>
>   Steve
>
>
>
>
> --
> Steve Traylen
>



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Steve Traylen