I run a local repo for our company's packages. Since yesterday we have problems with creating the repo files. When i run "createrepo --update -s sha rpmdir" i get the folowing error:
File "/usr/share/createrepo/genpkgmetadata.py", line 249, in ? main(sys.argv[1:]) File "/usr/share/createrepo/genpkgmetadata.py", line 223, in main mdgen.doPkgMetadata() File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/createrepo/__init__.py", line 368, in doPkgMetadata self.writeMetadataDocs(packages) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/createrepo/__init__.py", line 532, in writeMetadataDocs self.primaryfile.write(po.xml_dump_primary_metadata()) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/packages.py", line 1032, in xml_dump_primary_metadata msg += misc.to_unicode(self._dump_base_items()) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/packages.py", line 866, in _dump_base_items msg = """ UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc2 in position 83: ordinal not in range(128)
I didn't change anything on the server and it fails on packages that are more than a year old. It usually fails on package number 200-206. When i move the supposedly broken package to a new directory and run createrepo on that directory, then createrepo finishes OK.
I googled a bit, but i couldn't find anything useful. Has anyone on this list seen something similar and what was the problem.
thanx in advance Janez