[Rpm-metadata] createrepo problem

[Seth Vidal]

On Fri, 2008-09-05 at 08:19 +0100, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote:
> I'm building a yum repo based on the Scientific Linux 5.2 repo, with a few 
> of my own packages added. For the last few days the command
>    createrepo --checkts --database --cachedir /local/dpmms-builds/active/52/x86_64 /local/dpmms-builds/active/52/x86_64
> has been failing with the following essay of error message:
> 
> (process:14721): GLib-WARNING **: GError set over the top of a previous GError or uninitialized memory.
> This indicates a bug in someone's code. You must ensure an error is NULL before it's set.
> The overwriting error message was: Parsing other.xml error: Entity 'lt' not defined
> 
> (process:14721): GLib-WARNING **: GError set over the top of a previous GError or uninitialized memory.
> This indicates a bug in someone's code. You must ensure an error is NULL before it's set.
> The overwriting error message was: Parsing other.xml error: Entity 'gt' not defined
> 
>  	... several thousand repetitions omitted	...
> 
> (process:14721): GLib-WARNING **: GError set over the top of a previous GError or uninitialized memory.
> This indicates a bug in someone's code. You must ensure an error is NULL before it's set.
> The overwriting error message was: Parsing other.xml error: Entity 'lt' not defined
> 
> (process:14721): GLib-WARNING **: GError set over the top of a previous GError or uninitialized memory.
> This indicates a bug in someone's code. You must ensure an error is NULL before it's set.
> The overwriting error message was: Parsing other.xml error: Entity 'gt' not defined
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "/usr/share/createrepo/genpkgmetadata.py", line 722, in ?
>      main(sys.argv[1:])
>    File "/usr/share/createrepo/genpkgmetadata.py", line 646, in main
>      mdgen.doRepoMetadata()
>    File "/usr/share/createrepo/genpkgmetadata.py", line 321, in doRepoMetadata
>      dumpMetadata.repoXML(reporoot, self.cmds)
>    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
> 
> ----
> 
> /local/dpmms-builds/active/52/x86_64 has around 3500 rpms, so in an 
> attempt to simplify it I tried building a repo wirth just the a files,
> just the b files, ... but all worked.
> I next tried all packages beginning with a to m, and then all
> packages beginning n to z. Both built fine.
> I next tried building just a files, then a+b, then adding one more
> letter until I reached a-x which worked and a-y which failed.
> I thus suspect that I've hit some memory or buffer limit.
> 
> What do I do next to confirm that this is a createrepo bug
> rather than a bug in my packages ?
> 

When did you last update your libxml2 package?

-sv