[Rpm-metadata] createrepo 0.9.4 traceback with certain changelog data

[Panu Matilainen]

On Sun, 24 Feb 2008, Hans-Peter Jansen wrote:

> Hi Panu,
>
> Am Samstag, 23. Februar 2008 schrieb Panu Matilainen:
>> On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, Hans-Peter Jansen wrote:
>>> Am Montag, 11. Februar 2008 schrieben Sie:
>>>> On Sun, 2008-02-10 at 11:53 +0100, Hans-Peter Jansen wrote:
>>>>> Hi Seth,
>>>>>
>>>>> I think, it's better to not clutter up the ML with such stuff..
>>>>>
>>>>> Attached.
>>>>
>>>> in fedora 8 it shows changelogtime as a list 204 items long.
>>>
>>> Well the problem is the other way around. Or do you say, that a rpm
>>> packeage with a _single_ changelog entry appear as a 204 items long
>>> list ;-)
>>>
>>> Please either test the supplied rpm with exactly _one_ changelog entry,
>>> or create one for your one, and test that.
>>>
>>>> I think it is a suse rpm, thing.
>>>
>>> If that's the case, then earlier fedora/cent os releases are affected
>>> as well, since suse won't change such basic python interface code just
>>> for fun..
>>
>> Suse might missing this patch in their rpm (not treating changelog time
>> as a list always is a bug):
>>
>> diff -r 6a6942188e65 -r 08400e947833 python/header-py.c
>> --- a/python/header-py.c        Tue May 01 05:55:14 2007 +0100
>> +++ b/python/header-py.c        Thu May 10 12:35:49 2007 +0100
>> @@ -537,6 +537,7 @@ static PyObject * hdr_subscript(hdrObjec
>>       case RPMTAG_CONFLICTNAME:
>>       case RPMTAG_CONFLICTFLAGS:
>>       case RPMTAG_CONFLICTVERSION:
>> +    case RPMTAG_CHANGELOGTIME:
>>          forceArray = 1;
>>          break;
>>       case RPMTAG_SUMMARY:
>
> I suspected such a thing, but only investigated the suse rpm build for
> suspicious patches. I should have looked into the fedora rpm.spec..
>
> Is it possible to relate this fix to a certain rpm/fedora version?
>
> I'm going to create a backwards compatibility fix for yum (since I'm not 
> willing to modify rpm only to get the new createrepo going..). If it's 
> predictably useful beyond suse, I may try harder to create something 
> acceptable upstream.
>
> Anyway, thanks for this very helpful hint, Panu.

The fix is in upstream rpm since 4.4.2.1 and in Fedora, whatever the 
version was back then:
* Wed Jun 28 2006 Paul Nasrat <pnasrat at redhat.com> - 4.4.2-26
- Force CHANGELOGTIME to be a list in rpm-python

 	- Panu -