On Thu, 2008-10-02 at 19:49 +0400, Dmitry Butskoy wrote:
> Sometimes the changelog entries contain "<" and/or ">" symbols. For
> example, a fragment of the changelog of "k3b" package:
>
> > * Wed Oct 6 02:00:00 2004 Harald Hoyer <harald@xxxxxxxxxx> 0:0.11.17-1
> > - version 0.11.17
> > - revert the dao -> tao change
> > - add the suid feature to every app automatically
>
> note the "->" in the line:
>
> > - revert the dao -> tao change
>
> When I create my local repodata ("cd somewhere; createrepo ."), the
> correspond fragment appears in the "repodata/other.xml.gz" file, in the
> form of:
>
> > - revert the dao -> tao change
>
> Then, when I update my repodata by "createrepo --update .", I receive an
> error:
>
> > Scanning old repo data
> > Indexed 2997 base nodes
> > Indexed 3001 filelist nodes
> > /var/ftp/.4/fedora-8/fedora/i386/./repodata/other.xml.gz:118813:
> > parser error : Detected an entity reference loop
> > - revert the dao -> tao change
> > ^
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> > File "/usr/share/createrepo/genpkgmetadata.py", line 722, in <module>
> > main(sys.argv[1:])
> > File "/usr/share/createrepo/genpkgmetadata.py", line 645, in main
> > mdgen.doPkgMetadata(directory)
> > File "/usr/share/createrepo/genpkgmetadata.py", line 161, in
> > doPkgMetadata
> > basefile, flfile, otherfile, opts)
> > File "/usr/share/createrepo/readMetadata.py", line 41, in __init__
> > self.scan()
> > File "/usr/share/createrepo/readMetadata.py", line 64, in scan
> > root = libxml2.parseFile(self.files['other']).getRootElement()
> > File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/libxml2.py", line 1279, in
> > parseFile
> > if ret is None:raise parserError('xmlParseFile() failed')
> > libxml2.parserError: xmlParseFile() failed
>
> IOW, the initial "full" createrepo run seems OK, the subsequent run with
> "--update" is failed.
>
> Any comments? Whether it is some bug in createrepo, or in some yum
> components?
>
it's a bug in createrepo and it has been fixed in upstream but not put
into a release, yet.
-sv
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