[Rpm-metadata] createrepo problem

[Dr Andrew C Aitchison]

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 ?

Thanks,

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Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison		Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge
A.C.Aitchison at dpmms.cam.ac.uk	http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna