From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050719 Fedora/1.7.10-1.5.1 Description of problem: yum is not able to correctly print package names containing certain characters during updates: gcc-c%2B%2B-4.0.1-4.fc4.i 100% |=========================| 22 kB 00:00 ---> Package gcc-c++.i386 0:4.0.1-4.fc4 set to be updated ---> Downloading header for apr-devel to pack into transaction set. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): yum-2.3.2-7 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install an old verstion of gcc-g++ 2. yum update Actual Results: yum update ... gcc-c%2B%2B-4.0.1-4.fc4.i 100% |=========================| 22 kB 00:00 ---> Package gcc-c++.i386 0:4.0.1-4.fc4 set to be updated ---> Downloading header for apr-devel to pack into transaction set. ... Note the %2B's in the log above Expected Results: Correctly formated message Additional info:
it's converting the string before requesting it from the webserver. hence the printed name. does this affect functionality at all?
(In reply to comment #1) > does this affect functionality at all? AFAICT, this is a minor, cosmetical UI thing. It's "just ugly" and "a bit confusing", that's all.
Does this happen with 2.4.0?
(In reply to comment #3) > Does this happen with 2.4.0? No, AFAIS, it doesn't seem to happen anymore with 2.4.0.
It happens for me with 2.4.0, but doesn't appear to cause me any issues. [root@shark ~]# rpm -q yum yum-2.4.0-4 [root@shark ~]# yum --enablerepo=development update gcc-c++ ... ---> Downloading header for gcc-c++ to pack into transaction set. gcc-c%2B%2B-4.0.1-14.x86_ 100% |=========================| 28 kB 00:00
Should be better with newer python-urlgrabber