[Rpm-metadata] createrepo-0.4.6 creates defective metadata if filesystem is full

[seth vidal]

On Sun, 2007-12-23 at 15:48 +0100, Hans-Peter Jansen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> just wanted to let you know, that in case of a full filesystem,
> createrepo creates defective repodata without any error indication,
> finally leading to segfaults in yum.
> 
> Here's a related backtrace:
> 
> devel-tools               100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00     
> devel-tool: #############                                      31/119
> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> [Switching to Thread -1211885888 (LWP 22227)]
> 0xb7cad5c1 in strlen () from /lib/libc.so.6


Can you do me a favor? Can you test this on createrepo 0.9.4 and tell me
if it is still happening?

thanks,
-sv