[Rpm-metadata] createrepo problem

[Seth Vidal]

On Fri, 2008-09-05 at 16:13 +0100, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote:
> On Fri, 5 Sep 2008, Seth Vidal wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 2008-09-05 at 15:43 +0100, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote:
> >> On Fri, 5 Sep 2008, Seth Vidal wrote:
> >>
> >>>>    File "/usr/share/createrepo/dumpMetadata.py", line 821, in repoXML
> >>>>      rp.getOtherdata(complete_path, csum)
> >>>>    File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/sqlitecachec.py", line 57, in getOtherdata
> >>>>      self.repoid))
> >>>> TypeError: Parsing other.xml error: Detected an entity reference loop
> >>
> >>> When did you last update your libxml2 package?
> >>
> >> `rpmquery -i --changelog libxml2` reports:
> >>
> >> Name        : libxml2			Relocations: /usr
> >> Version     : 2.6.26			Vendor: Scientific Linux
> >> Release     : 2.1.2.4			Build Date: Tue 26 Aug 2008 11:42:35 BST
> >> Install Date: Thu 28 Aug 2008 05:17:23 BST      Build Host: norob.fnal.gov
> >> Group       : Development/Libraries         Source RPM: libxml2-2.6.26-2.1.2.4.src.rpm
> >> Size        : 1642201                          License: MIT
> 
> >> Reverting to libxml2-2.6.26-2.1.2.3 doesn't help.
> >
> > Go back two versions, if you can, and see if it gets better.
> 
> libxml2-2.6.26-2.1.2.1.x86_64.rpm works.
> 
> Does this indicate that the SL libxml packages need reverting,
> or is this fixing a local problem elsewhere ?

it indicates that the upstream libxml2 packages  (from red hat) need
another fix, I think.

please file a bug in rh bugzilla.

-sv