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Title: createrepo not creating URLs correctly Status in createrepo package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: If the directory you wish to publish to contains characters that need to be escaped for a URL then create repo bombs out and will not work. Linux ubuntu 3.19.0-15-generic #15-Ubuntu SMP Thu Apr 16 23:32:37 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Ubuntu 15.04 createrepo 0.10.3-1 e.g. user@ubuntu:~$ createrepo --update -o "/home/luser/source/a space/packaging/dist/jenkins/1.642/rpm-rc" --baseurl=file:/tmp/wibble "/home/luser/source/a space/packaging/dist/jenkins/1.642/rpm-rc/RPMS/noarch/" Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/createrepo/genpkgmetadata.py", line 308, in <module> main(sys.argv[1:]) File "/usr/share/createrepo/genpkgmetadata.py", line 276, in main mdgen.doPkgMetadata() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/createrepo/__init__.py", line 401, in doPkgMetadata self._setup_old_metadata_lookup() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/createrepo/__init__.py", line 387, in _setup_old_metadata_lookup self.oldData = readMetadata.MetadataIndex(old_repo_path, opts) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/createrepo/readMetadata.py", line 50, in __init__ self._repo.baseurl = 'file://' + realpath File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/yum/config.py", line 99, in __set__ value, str(e))) ValueError: Error parsing "baseurl = 'file:///home/luser/source/a space/packaging/dist/jenkins/1.642/rpm-rc'": URL must be http, ftp, file or https not "" The code is obviously wrong... /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/createrepo/readMetadata.py:50 self._repo.baseurl = 'file://' + realpath You can not assume that an abitrary directory can be converted to a URL by prepending with file:// - characters need to be escaped - this is the whole reason why URL handling functions exist - e.g. https://docs.python.org/3/library/urllib.request.html#urllib.request.pathname2url To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/createrepo/+bug/1547474/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp