Description of problem: yum info afflib halts with traceback. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): yum-3.2.14-2.fc9.noarch How reproducible: every time Steps to Reproduce: 1. yum info afflib 2. 3. Actual results: yum halts with traceback just before printing a line containing a Unicode registered trademark sign. Expected results: yum-3.2.12-4.fc9.noarch gets this result: Description: AFF® is an open and extensible file format designed to store disk images and associated metadata. afflib is : library for support of the Advanced Forensic Format (AFF). Additional info: [alpha@alpha ~]$ yum info afflib Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit Available Packages Name : afflib Arch : i386 Version : 3.1.3 Release : 4.fc9 Size : 156 k Repo : rawhide Summary : Library to support the Advanced Forensic Format URL : http://www.afflib.org License : BSD with advertising Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in <module> yummain.user_main(sys.argv[1:], exit_code=True) File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 236, in user_main errcode = main(args) File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 111, in main result, resultmsgs = base.doCommands() File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 309, in doCommands return self.yum_cli_commands[self.basecmd].doCommand(self, self.basecmd, self.extcmds) File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yumcommands.py", line 214, in doCommand rap = base.listPkgs(ypl.available, _('Available Packages'), basecmd) File "/usr/share/yum-cli/output.py", line 337, in listPkgs self.infoOutput(pkg) File "/usr/share/yum-cli/output.py", line 308, in infoOutput print self.fmtKeyValFill(_("Description: "), enc(pkg.description)) File "/usr/share/yum-cli/output.py", line 256, in fmtKeyValFill val = str(val) UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xae' in position 3: ordinal not in range(128) [alpha@alpha ~]$ rpm -q yum yum-3.2.14-2.fc9.noarch [alpha@alpha ~]$ rpm -qf /usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py yum-3.2.14-2.fc9.noarch [alpha@alpha ~]$
could you please test this package http://koji.fedoraproject.org/packages/yum/3.2.14/7.fc9/noarch/yum-3.2.14-7.fc9.noarch.rpm thanks
Works for me.
Changing version to '9' as part of upcoming Fedora 9 GA. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping