[issue180] Issues with Smart and SuSE 9.1

[Christoph Thiel]

On Fri, 14 Jul 2006, Jeremy P Lemieux at Labix Tracker wrote:

> New submission from Jeremy P Lemieux <labix at jeremylemieux.net>:
> 
> When trying to do 'smart update' on a SuSE 9.1 system, I get the following
> error.  I have my rpm-sys, one rpm-md, and one yast2 repository.  The rpm-md is
> the standard updates tree for 9.3, and from what I can tell it is this one that
> is having a python issue.
> 
>   File "/usr/bin/smart", line 194, in ?
>     main(sys.argv[1:])
>   File "/usr/bin/smart", line 167, in main
>     exitcode = iface.run(opts.command, opts.argv)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/smart/interface.py", line 53, in run
>     result = _command.main(self._ctrl, opts)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/smart/commands/update.py", line 77, in
>  main
>     ctrl.reloadChannels()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/smart/control.py", line 375, in reloadC
> hannels
>     self._cache.load()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/smart/backends/rpm/metadata.py", line 3
> 21, in loadFileProvides
>     self.parseFilesList(fndict)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/smart/backends/rpm/metadata.py", line 3
> 46, in parseFilesList
>     for event, elem in cElementTree.iterparse(file, ("start", "end")):
>   File "<string>", line 60, in __iter__
> SyntaxError: not well-formed (invalid token): line 19511, column 80

Looks like an error in our update tree's repodata files. Please report a 
bug on bugzilla.novell.com for this!


Regards
	christoph