yum 2.1.0

[seth vidal]

> I don't think this particular traceback has anything to do with libxml2,
> but tagByName() behaving differently on FC2 and < FC2 (seemingly a rpm,
> rpm-python or python difference).  The attached patch should fix this
> particular case.
> 
> ______________________________________________________________________
> Index: dumpMetadata.py
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvsroot/metadata/cvs-root/generate/dumpMetadata.py,v
> retrieving revision 1.22
> diff -a -u -r1.22 dumpMetadata.py
> --- dumpMetadata.py	27 Aug 2004 07:03:40 -0000	1.22
> +++ dumpMetadata.py	3 Sep 2004 19:37:02 -0000
> @@ -86,7 +86,9 @@
>  
>  def utf8String(string):
>      """hands back a unicoded string"""
> -    if isinstance(string, unicode):
> +    if string is None:
> +        return ''
> +    elif isinstance(string, unicode):
>          return string
>      try:
>          x = unicode(string, 'ascii')
> 
> ______________________________________________________________________

Thanks Ville, I'll get that applied to cvs shortly.

-sv