preupgrade from f11 to rawhide broken? python traceback

[Seth Vidal]

On Wed, 7 Oct 2009, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 01, 2009 at 10:51:36PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
>>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>> File "/usr/share/preupgrade/preupgrade-cli.py", line 305, in <module>
>>>>   pu.main(myrelease)
>>>> File "/usr/share/preupgrade/preupgrade-cli.py", line 270, in main
>>>>   self.generate_repo(cachedir, comps) # TODO: callback?
>>>> File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/preupgrade/__init__.py", line 651,
>>>> in generate_repo
>>>>   misc.generate_repodata(dir,comps,callback)
>>>> File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/preupgrade/misc.py", line 131, in
>>>> generate_repodata
>>>>   generate_repodata(dir, comps, callback)
>>>> File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/preupgrade/misc.py", line 148, in
>>>> generate_repodata_f9
>>>>   mdgen.doRepoMetadata()
>>>> File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/createrepo/__init__.py", line 829,
>>>> in doRepoMetadata
>>>>   rp.getPrimary(complete_path, csum)
>>>> File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/sqlitecachec.py", line 45, in
>>>> getPrimary
>>>>   self.repoid))
>>>> TypeError: Parsing primary.xml error: attributes construct error
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Known problem? How to fix it?
>>>
>>> this is the second time I've seen this one - if you can find
>>> the primary.xml in /var/cache/yum/anaconda* directory, I'd appreciate
>>> seeing it.
>>>
>>
>> # ls /var/cache/yum
>> fedora  preupgrade  updates
>>
>> # cd /var/cache/yum
>>
>> # find -iname '*primary*'
>> ./updates/77201d8b7218d4edb8d0762c1aa1cbbe5975fdc571d0787f1920a0a204b1188d-primary.sqlite
>> ./preupgrade/f854960bfcacf06e2a8cb03cf3928a38c8e4e2fa860bed984a0edb89555600cf-primary.sqlite
>> ./preupgrade/.repodata/primary.xml.gz
>> ./preupgrade/.repodata/primary.xml.gz.sqlite
>> ./fedora/6a8bfab8ebcbc79f9827f5b16bc1bd1573c068f141bf47c6f216e72dd8b60ff0-primary.sqlite
>>
>>
>> I put it available online here:
>> http://pasik.reaktio.net/fedora/rawhide-primary.xml.gz
>>
>> Firefox complains about it btw..
>>
>> XML Parsing Error: not well-formed
>> Location: http://pasik.reaktio.net/fedora/rawhide-primary.xml.gz
>> Line Number 42622, Column 68:
>>       <rpm:entry name="group(saslauth)" flags="EQ" epoch="0" ver=""Saslauthd"/>
>> -------------------------------------------------------------------^
>>
>
> Does this help? Did you have time to take a look at it? Other people
> seem to be having the same problem..
>

update to yum from f11-updates (3.2.24) and the problem goes away.

-sv