[Rpm-metadata] [Fwd: Re: yum 2.1.0]

[seth vidal]

On Fri, 2004-09-03 at 15:29, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-09-03 at 21:07, seth vidal wrote:
> 
> >  Take a look at this traceback. This happens after applying your patch.
> > I'm going to work on it but if I remember correctly this is the reason
> > why I didn't try to do too much tricky stuff with encoding conversion in
> > createrepo.
> 
> Hm, I don't think it's really that much about encoding conversion, but
> just that utf8string() does not check for None, and rpmObj.tagByName()
> in dumpMetaData.generateXML() behaves differently with nonexistent tags
> on FC1 than it does on FC2: returns None on FC1, empty string on FC2.
> 
> The attached patch is a quick fix for utf8string(); perhaps it would be
> a good idea to additionally make tagByName() never return None but an
> empty string instead so that it won't bite elsewhere later?

You're right. Thanks for pointing that out.

I'll get it patched up.
-sv