[Rpm-metadata] createrepo problem

[Seth Vidal]

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.s
> rc.rpm
> Size        : 1642201                          License: MIT
> URL         : http://xmlsoft.org/
> Summary     : Library providing XML and HTML support
> Description :
> This library allows to manipulate XML files. It includes support
> to read, modify and write XML and HTML files. There is DTDs support
> this includes parsing and validation even with complex DtDs, either
> at parse time or later once the document has been modified. The output
> can be a simple SAX stream or and in-memory DOM like representations.
> In this case one can use the built-in XPath and XPointer implementation
> to select subnodes or ranges. A flexible Input/Output mechanism is
> available, with existing HTTP and FTP modules and combined to an
> URI library.
> * Sat Aug 23 2008 Daniel Veillard <veillard at redhat.com> - 2.6.26-2.1.2.4
> - change the patch for CVE-2008-3281 due to ABI issues
> - Resolves: rhbz#458095
> 
> 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.

-sv