On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 22:33 -0500, Will Woods wrote:
On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 17:26 -0600, Jerry Amundson wrote:
> I'm normally 'yum live upgrade' type, but trying preupgrade now.
>
> 556/742 - preupgrade/packages/openoffice.org-calc-core-3.0.1-13.2.fc11.x86_64.rp
> 605/742 - preupgrade/packages/libXdamage-1.1.1-5.fc11.i386.rpmTraceback (most
> recent call last):
> File "/usr/share/preupgrade/preupgrade-cli.py", line 284, in
<module>
> pu.main(myrelease)
> File "/usr/share/preupgrade/preupgrade-cli.py", line 249, in main
> self.generate_repodata(cachedir, comps) # TODO: callback?
> File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/preupgrade/__init__.py", line
711, in
> generate_repodata
> generate_repodata(dir, comps, callback)
> File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/preupgrade/__init__.py", line
727, in
> generate_repodata_f9
> 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 936, in
> _dump_changelog
> misc.to_xml(author, attrib=True), misc.to_xml(str(ts)),
> File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/misc.py", line 749, in
to_xml
> item = _ugly_utf8_string_hack(item)
> File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/misc.py", line 728, in
> _ugly_utf8_string_hack
> print '\n%s encoding on %s\n' % (enc, item)
> File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/codecs.py", line 303, in write
> data, consumed = self.encode(object, self.errors)
> UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xf8 in position 34:
> ordinal not in range(128)
You're trying to upgrade to Rawhide, I take it? It looks like createrepo
is choking on something in the changelog of the rawhide libXdamage.
Er, to clarify, file a bug *against preupgrade*. I'm pretty sure
createrepo handles this normally outside of preupgrade so I'm probably
setting something up wrong.
The most recent changelog entry in libXdamage is:
* Wed Dec 03 2008 Caolán McNamara <caolanm(a)redhat.com> - 1.1.1-5
- rebuild to get provides pkgconfig(xdamage)
Guess we're not handling that UTF-8 'á' properly.
-w