smart for Fedora 11

[Anders F Björklund]

Gustavo Niemeyer wrote:

> Hey Axel,
>
>> I'm trying to use smart to manage Fedora 11 chroots (the host is
>> RHEL5). smart fails with
> (...)
>> The setup with Fedora 10 & updates chroots which does look quite
>> similar to the rawhide/Fedora 11 ones work OK.
>
> Does it work fine if you use the Python version of the cache?  Try
> commenting out the import from ccache at the end of cache.py to check
> it out.
>
> RPM is probably returning unicode strings in a place it didn't use to,
> so we'll probably have to adapt Smart accordingly.

Fedora 11 has changed their RPM to allow unicode in package
dependencies now, which breaks other programs expecting str...

* Sat Feb 21 2009 Panu Matilainen <pmatilai at redhat.com> - 4.6.0-7
- loosen up restrictions on dependency names (#455119)

See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=455119#c4

--anders