Description of problem: yum reinstall gives an error, if: $LANG settings are set to de_DE.utf8 and the package doesn't exist. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): yum --version: 3.2.19 Installed: yum-3.2.19-3.fc10.noarch at 2008-09-22 03:48 Built : Fedora Project at 2008-09-03 14:52 Committed: Seth Vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org> at 2008-09-03 22:00 Installed: rpm-4.5.90-0.git8514.1.i386 at 2008-10-02 23:56 Built : Fedora Project at 2008-10-01 08:48 Committed: Panu Matilainen <pmatilai> at 2008-10-01 22:00 Installed: yum-metadata-parser-1.1.2-8.fc9.i386 at 2008-09-22 02:41 Built : Fedora Project at 2008-02-14 13:27 Committed: Seth Vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org> at 2008-02-14 22:00 How reproducible: Enter this into a terminal: LANG=de_DE.utf8 yum reinstall PackageNotExist Actual results: Geladene Plugins: refresh-packagekit Einrichten des Neuinstallationsprozess Kein Übereinstimmung für Argument: PackageNotExist 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 229, in user_main errcode = main(args) File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 104, in main result, resultmsgs = base.doCommands() File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 339, in doCommands return self.yum_cli_commands[self.basecmd].doCommand(self, self.basecmd, self.extcmds) File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yumcommands.py", line 839, in doCommand return 1, [str(e)] UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xfc' in position 63: ordinal not in range(128)
This is fixed in upstream commit: 29247ba155041585ae37042fb64a687522f094e7 ...this should be in rawhide/Fedora 10 "soon".