Fedora's unicode RPM dependencies

[Anders F Björklund]

rpm-4.6.0-7 allows unicode in provides and other dependencies, which causes "str". vs "unicode" issues in Smart / buildPackage().

TypeError: argument 1 must be str, not unicode

[Need (need-redhat-bugs)]

Description of problem:
'smart update' and 'smart --gui' abort with stack trace after adding
"bleeding edge" repositories.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
# smart --version
smart 1.1.1

How reproducible:
currently happens with every attempt to update, but it may depend on the repositories the user has loaded and the contents of those repositories

Steps to Reproduce:
1. - add updates-testing or development-source repository to smart
2. smart update
3. - observe exception

Actual results:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/smart", line 195, in <module>
    main(sys.argv[1:])
  File "/usr/bin/smart", line 168, in main
    exitcode = iface.run(opts.command, opts.argv)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/smart/interface.py", line 53, in run
    result = _command.main(self._ctrl, opts)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/smart/commands/update.py", line 77, in main
    ctrl.reloadChannels()
  File "control.py", line 387, in reloadChannels
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/smart/backends/rpm/metadata.py", line 294, in load
    prvargs, reqargs, upgargs, cnfargs)
TypeError: argument 1 must be str, not unicode

Expected results:
smart update completes without error

Additional info:
probably same issue as reported here:
   https://bugs.launchpad.net/smart/+bug/337798

[Need (need-redhat-bugs)]

these are the specific packages I have installed:

# rpm -qa | grep smart-
smart-gui-1.1-59.0.1.fc10.x86_64
smart-1.1-59.0.1.fc10.x86_64
fedora-package-config-smart-10-15.x86_64

[Need (need-redhat-bugs)]

Someone added a patch to the other bug I linked:
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/23697017/smart-unicode-provides.diff

Applying this patch fixes the problem. [You will have to adjust the line numbers in the patch, but the fix is straightforward.]

[Axel (axel-redhat-bugs)]

The upstream bug for this one is

https://bugs.launchpad.net/smart/+bug/337798

The unicode vs str issue was expected to appear in F11 and later, I think that the development-source channel triggered this bug for you, e.g. it is not an F10 bug, but an F11 bug (OTOH building a rawhide chroot within an F10/F9 host will trigger this bug as well).

If I am wrong, please change the version field back to F10 and raise the severity!!!

[Fedora (fedora-redhat-bugs)]

smart-1.2-63.fc10 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 10.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/smart-1.2-63.fc10

[Fedora (fedora-redhat-bugs)]

smart-1.2-63.fc9 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 9.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/smart-1.2-63.fc9

[Fedora (fedora-redhat-bugs)]

smart-1.2-64.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing-newkey update smart'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F9/FEDORA-2009-3736

[Fedora (fedora-redhat-bugs)]

smart-1.2-64.fc10 has been pushed to the Fedora 10 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update smart'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F10/FEDORA-2009-3738

[Fedora (fedora-redhat-bugs)]

smart-1.2-64.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

[Fedora (fedora-redhat-bugs)]

smart-1.2-64.fc10 has been pushed to the Fedora 10 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.