I am on F23 and I have the following RPMs installed. createrepo_c-libs-0.9.1-1.fc23.x86_64 createrepo-0.10.3-3.fc21.noarch createrepo_c-0.9.1-1.fc23.x86_64 In my Python application we have had the following code working for a long time: from createrepo import yumbased po = yumbased.CreateRepoPackage(ts, pkg_path, sumtype=sumtype) po.xml_dump_primary_metadata() sumtype has always been a str, but more recently our application is getting more Unicode support. When sumtype became a Unicode object I now receive the following traceback: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/vagrant/devel/pulp_rpm/plugins/pulp_rpm/plugins/importers/yum/upload.py", line 100, in upload handlers[type_id](repo, type_id, unit_key, metadata, file_path, conduit, config) File "/home/vagrant/devel/pulp_rpm/plugins/pulp_rpm/plugins/importers/yum/upload.py", line 311, in _handle_package unit.repodata = rpm_parse.get_package_xml(file_path, sumtype=unit.checksumtype) File "/home/vagrant/devel/pulp_rpm/plugins/pulp_rpm/plugins/importers/yum/parse/rpm.py", line 40, in get_package_xml primary_xml_snippet = change_location_tag(po.xml_dump_primary_metadata(), pkg_path) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/packages.py", line 1342, in xml_dump_primary_metadata assert type(msg) is str AssertionError One solution would be to allow that argument to be unicode. A broader effort to test createrepo with unicode data would also be good.
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