[issue217] Ampersand in suse updates filelist.xml

[Pascal Bleser]

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Basil Chupin wrote:
> jon at Labix Tracker wrote:
>> jon <linux.learner at gmail.com> added the comment:
>>
>> This is not a smart bug. This is a problem with a package in the repos
>> that
>> screwed the repo file. The bug for it has been files here
>> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=207111
>>
>> This is not affecting just smart, but yum and rug/zypp as well
> 
> Sorry, but it is a smart problem.
> 
> If smart can be brought down to its knees by a simple typo and then
> requires manual intervention of some degree of complexity to get smart
> to just simply function again then it is definitely a smart problem.

Learn XML, the rpm-md metadata is broken (it is not valid XML), period.

smart could handle the issue more gracefully though, no question.

> How it may or may not affect yam or carpet or zapp is immaterial.

Ok, if you say so.

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