unicode error with mergerepos against CentOS 5.

[Steve Traylen]

2009/3/27 Seth Vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org>:
>
>
> On Fri, 27 Mar 2009, Steve Traylen wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Steve Traylen <steve at traylen.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Seth Vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, 18 Mar 2009, Steve Traylen wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> the metadata you're pulling in was written with a much older
>>>>>> createrepo
>>>>>> which was less picky about some of the data it wrote back out. So you
>>>>>> end
>>>>>> up
>>>>>> with some pkgs with dodgy data in the changelogs.
>>>>>
>>>>> Mirroring in CentOS5 and then recreating from scratch the repodirs with
>>>>> a
>>>>> Fedora
>>>>> 10 createrepo the the repository is created spitting out some warnings.
>>>>
>>>> What ver of yum and createrepo do you have when you're running both
>>>> createrepo and mergerepo?
>>>
>>> $ rpm -qf /usr/bin/yum \
>>>              /usr/bin/mergerepo \
>>>              /usr/bin/createrepo \
>>>              /usr/libexec/kojid/mergerepos
>>> yum-3.2.21-2.fc10.noarch
>>> createrepo-0.9.6-3.fc10.noarch
>>> createrepo-0.9.6-3.fc10.noarch
>>> koji-builder-1.3.1-1.fc10.noarch
>>>
>>
>> Hi Seth,
>>
>> Is there any workaround or anything for this?
>>
>>   Steve
>
> I doubt it'll help much - but try 0.9.7 and 3.2.22 that  are in rawhide. We
> fixed a few more unicode explosions but I'm sure we're still missing some
>
> -sv

Same with rawhide.

Workaround , removing by hand the copyright symbol present in
primary.xml.
recorded here:
http://createrepo.baseurl.org/ticket/3



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