Bug 748850 - yum tracebacks when package with ® in name is installed
Summary: yum tracebacks when package with ® in name is installed
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Classification: Red Hat
Component: yum
Version: 5.7
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Packaging Maintenance Team
QA Contact: BaseOS QE Security Team
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Depends On: 701344
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-10-25 13:56 UTC by Michael Mráka
Modified: 2014-01-21 06:24 UTC (History)
8 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Clone Of: 701344
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Last Closed: 2013-03-18 12:48:16 UTC
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Comment 2 RHEL Program Management 2012-06-12 01:28:17 UTC 
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for
inclusion in the current release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Because the affected component is not scheduled to be updated in the
current release, Red Hat is unfortunately unable to address this
request at this time. Red Hat invites you to ask your support
representative to propose this request, if appropriate and relevant,
in the next release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Comment 3 Zdeněk Pavlas 2013-03-18 12:48:16 UTC 
Yum has never supported non-ascii package names.  Internally, it's mostly ok to use whatever binary strings, but it's the UI that uses unicode that breaks things.

In theory, a bunch of to_unicode() calls in output.py (and probably in few other places as well) may fix this, but I'm not sure it's worth it.  Maybe upstream, but probably not in EL5.
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