Re: [opensuse] non-standard characters in 11.3 rpm data causing problems with createrepo

On 10/19/2010 10:32 AM, Philipp Thomas wrote:
* Philipp Thomas (pth@xxxxxxx) [20101019 17:13]:

I'd say the OBS should run an additional check on .spec files to ensure that
Author names are encoded in utf8. I'll discuss that with collegues.

Actually rpmlint *does* give a warning when a spec file isn't encoded in
utf8.But as it's only a warning, you should just bug the maintainer of a
given package to fix the spec file.

Philipp

Philipp,

While we're on the topic, why does suse still use PreReq in packaging? The
yum/creatrepo upstream guys had to create a patch to make createrepo 0.9.8 work
with my suse repos. Without it, the following errors were received on metadata
update:

<snip>
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'RPMSENSE_PREREQ'

The patch required was:

--- yum/packages.py.orig
+++ yum/packages.py
@@ -1353,11 +1353,14 @@
is a pre-requires or a not"""
# FIXME this should probably be put in rpmUtils.miscutils since
# - that's what it is
+ RPMSENSE_PREREQ = (1 << 6)
+ RPMSENSE_SCRIPT_PRE = (1 << 9)
+ RPMSENSE_SCRIPT_POST = (1 << 10)
if flag is not None:
# Note: RPMSENSE_PREREQ == 0 since rpm-4.4'ish
- if flag & (rpm.RPMSENSE_PREREQ |
- rpm.RPMSENSE_SCRIPT_PRE |
- rpm.RPMSENSE_SCRIPT_POST):
+ if flag & (RPMSENSE_PREREQ |
+ RPMSENSE_SCRIPT_PRE |
+ RPMSENSE_SCRIPT_POST):
return 1
return 0


There comments were: "only suse uses PreReq nowadays", so the question is "Why?"

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