Guys, Just fyi, creatrepo throws info warning on the foreign characters included in rpm metadata. Earlier versions of createrepo would choke on these. You can see the packages and characters causing the problems in the createrepo output below: 464/1381 - i586/gcalctool-5.30.2-1.2.i586.rpm iso-8859-1 encoding on A French dictionary for the ASpell spell checker. Authors: -------- R�mi Vanicat <vanicat@labri.u-bordeaux.fr> Christophe Pythoud <Christophe.Pythoud@ling.unil.ch> 845/1381 - i586/libtracker-client-0_8-0-0.8.5-11.1.i586.rpm iso-8859-1 encoding on A Spanish dictionary for the ASpell spell checker. Authors: -------- Santiago Rodr�guez <srodri@fi.upm.es> Jes�s Carretero <jcarrete@fi.upm.es> 1155/1381 - i586/quadrapassel-2.30.2-1.10.i586.rpm iso-8859-1 encoding on The xauth program is used to edit and display the authorization information used in connecting to the X server. Authors: -------- <snip> Felix K�lhing <snip> 1226/1381 - i586/libgnome-window-settings-devel-2.30.1-1.13.i586.rpm iso-8859-1 encoding on This package contains the X.Org core and sample applications. Authors: -------- <snip> Felix K�lhing <snip> 1240/1381 - i586/yast2-country-data-2.19.19-0.1.1.i586.rpm iso-8859-1 encoding on BasKet can be used as a manual clipboard. This means that you can drop files of all kinds inside. They can be grouped in different tabs. It is also possible to add additional comments to the items or to use BasKet as a KDE clipboard replacement. Authors: -------- S�bastien Lao�t <slaout@linux62.org> 1381/1381 - i586/kolourpaint-4.4.4-2.1.1.i586.rpm Saving Primary metadata Saving file lists metadata Saving other metadata Generating sqlite DBs Sqlite DBs complete The repositories are still built, but something needs to be done to standardize the allowed character set for rpm metadata or I guess the whole OS needs to be updated to handle the non-standard one. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org