[Rpm-metadata] createrepo: initial comments and a UTF-8 patch

[Ville Skyttä]

On Mon, 2004-07-26 at 09:25, seth vidal wrote:

> > Well, in my tests I could not find a case where libxml would not
> > automatically do the string cleanup, ie. where createrepo would produce
> > invalid XML without xmlCleanString() calls in place.  If you have a case
> > where the auto-escaping does not happen, let me know.
> 
> When I was working on it originally libxml2-python wouldn't play nicely.
> If it does now, then great, but I'm afraid of it blowing up on older
> versions. I'll see if anything gets odd on older systems.

Ok.  I have only tested with libxml2-python 2.6.8 on FC2.

> > Accidentally, .htaccess, something?  Whatever, I tend to think that
> > createrepo should not choke on it.
> 
> So you'd rather it blew away your addition to that dir rather than
> warning you about it?

No, I'd expect it to not touch them.