On 11 October 2013 23:03, Andy Parker <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 1:38 PM, Jos Backus <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Friday, October 11, 2013 12:54:00 PM UTC-7, Erik Dalén wrote:
>>>
>>> What is the locale setting here? Is it C or a UTF-8 locale?
>>>
>>
>> In my setup (CentOS 6.3), 'locale' says POSIX. One "fix" is to set
>> LANG=en_US.UTF-8 in the environment.
>>
>>>
>>> If it is C it is really a rpm bug, but Puppet should probably handle
>>> those as well.
>>>
>>
> How would puppet be able to figure this out? We set the locale to C
> (puppet does that when it executes commands) and then we got UTF-8 text. We
> could scan the output and guess about the encoding, but there are plenty of
> cases where that will go wrong.
>
Don't know really. Probably just fallback to UTF-8 if locale is C and text
contains non ASCII characters. If it is invalid UTF-8 I guess it would have
to bail out like this.
But I mean as it is a RPM bug Puppet basically has to work around it or
reimplement the parts of RPM it needs to read package lists itself.
>
>
>>
>> Good luck getting that fixed :)
>>
>> But forcing the encoding like that might actually cause problems for
>>> people on a ISO-8859 locale or EUC-JP and stuff.
>>>
>>
>> Yeah. Locales are fun.
>>
>>
> Yeah, we can't force the encoding :(
>
>
>> Btw, this is a bad bug because it breaks file { ensure => latest; }.
>>
>> Filed http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/22848
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jos
>>
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 11 October 2013 13:58, Peter Meier <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
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>>>> On 10/11/2013 02:00 AM, Jos Backus wrote:
>>>> > One of our RPM packages has some UTF-8 characters in its
>>>> > description, leading to an exception ("Error: Could not prefetch
>>>> > package provider 'yum': invalid byte sequence in US-ASCII") in
>>>> > rpm.rb, causing no packages to be upgraded as the yumhelper.py
>>>> > invocation code raises that error. I'm using the following
>>>> > workaround:
>>>>
>>>> can you make a ticket with your patch attached? ->
>>>> http://projects.puppetlabs.**com/ <http://projects.puppetlabs.com/>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks!
>>>>
>>>> ~pete
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