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.
>
> 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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