Description of problem: try to install an package where the name contains latin1 characters. for example: yum install foo-äöü Version-Release number of selected component: yum-3.4.3-111.fc19 Additional info: reporter: libreport-2.1.9 cmdline: /usr/bin/python /bin/yum install 'navit-zubeh\xc3\xb6r' executable: /bin/yum kernel: 3.11.9-200.fc19.x86_64 runlevel: N 5 type: Python uid: 0 Truncated backtrace: depsolve.py:984:_resolveRequires:UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 11: ordinal not in range(128) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/bin/yum", line 29, in <module> yummain.user_main(sys.argv[1:], exit_code=True) File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 355, in user_main errcode = main(args) File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 217, in main (result, resultmsgs) = base.buildTransaction() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 1189, in buildTransaction (rescode, restring) = self.resolveDeps() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 880, in resolveDeps CheckDeps, checkinstalls, checkremoves, missing = self._resolveRequires(errors) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 984, in _resolveRequires _("Checking deps for %s") %(txmbr,)) UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 11: ordinal not in range(128) Local variables in innermost frame: CheckDeps: False any_missing: False dscb_ts_state: 'i' self: <cli.YumBaseCli object at 0x2ae1c50> errors: [] txmbr: <TransactionMember : navit-zubehör.x86_64 0:0.5.0-5723.fc19 - u (0x3d452d8)> CheckInstalls: False CheckRemoves: False
Created attachment 833871 [details] File: backtrace
Created attachment 833872 [details] File: environ
> txmbr: <TransactionMember : navit-zubehör.x86_64 0:0.5.0-5723.fc19 - u (0x3d452d8)> AFAIK Yum never officially supported non-ascii package names. Technically it should not be that hard to make it "mostly" ok, but fixing all the error paths would still be quite a challenge. However, rpmbuild for at least a year *refuses* building a package with non-ascii package name, so there seems to be no point in doing so. $ rpmbuild --version RPM version 4.9.1.3 $ rpmbuild -bb dummy.spec error: line 2: Illegal char in: Name: navit-zubehör
Very interesting, on my system rpmbuild will build it. rpmbuild --version RPM-Version 4.11.1 rpmbuild -bs navit.spec Erstellt: /home/frank/RPM/SRPMS/navit-0.5.0-5725.fc19.src.rpm
Maybe it has been changed.. or it's accepted in sub-package name but not in the package name (probably a bug).. Could you attach your .spec file? Or maybe the following could be enough.. $ egrep '^(Name|%package)' navit.spec
Confirmed that rpmbuild should reject this, filled rpm bug 1039520.
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