Bug 1743186

Summary: Rebase createrepo_c to at least 0.14
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Reporter: Tomas Kopecek <tkopecek>
Component: createrepo_cAssignee: amatej
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Radek Bíba <rbiba>
Severity: unspecified Docs Contact: Katerina Nemcova <knemcova>
Priority: high    
Version: 8.2CC: jblazek, knemcova, mdomonko, rbiba
Target Milestone: rcKeywords: Rebase, Triaged
Target Release: 8.0   
Hardware: Unspecified   
OS: Unspecified   
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Fixed In Version: createrepo_c-0.15.1-1.el8 Doc Type: Enhancement
Doc Text:
.The `createrepo_c` utility now skips packages whose metadata contains the disallowed control characters To ensure a valid XML, the package metadata must not contain any control characters, with the exception of: * the horizontal tab * the newline character * the carriage return character With this update, the `createrepo_c` utility does not include packages with metadata containing disallowed control characters in a newly created repository, and returns the following error message: ---- C_CREATEREPOLIB: Critical: Cannot dump XML for PACKAGE_NAME (PACKAGE_SUM): Forbidden control chars found (ASCII values <32 except 9, 10 and 13) ----
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Last Closed: 2020-04-28 15:39:34 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Tomas Kopecek 2019-08-19 09:42:56 UTC
Description of problem:

createrepo_c provides new options in this version (--pkglist) which is in use by variours koji/brew instances. It would be nice, if we have it in official repositories.

Comment 20 errata-xmlrpc 2020-04-28 15:39:34 UTC
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2020:1620