[ale] smart update errors

[Dow_Hurst]

Sounds like you've attempted a full update that failed on a couple of packages.  The error looks like a GPG key failed to be interpreted correctly.  Was the example you gave providing the same error you got when you attempted the full update?  Additional channels are available that aren't enabled by default.  You can read this document for more info:

http://susewiki.org/index.php?title=Smart

Might help if the key isn't the problem and different channels are needed.  Post if you find the answer to the problem as  I use this package manager myself.  Never had any problems yet, except once and by the next day it had been resolved in the repository.
Dow


-----Original Message-----
>From: Paul Cartwright <paul_tbot at pcartwright.com>
>Sent: Sep 6, 2006 10:03 AM
>To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
>Subject: [ale] smart update errors
>
>anyone know how to fix this problem???
>I have done a smart update, then tried smart upgrade.
>I can do all the packages except for audacity and kavi2svcd. when I try 
>either of those I get this error:
>
># smart install audacity
>Loading cache...
>Updating cache...               
>######################################## [100%]
>
>Computing transaction...
>
>Upgrading packages (1):
>  audacity-1.2.4b-26.pm.0 at i586
>
>6.0MB of package files are needed. 12.6MB will be used.
>
>Confirm changes? (Y/n):
>
>Committing transaction...
>warning: rpmts_HdrFromFdno: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 
>f9558872
>Trying to import the key bfb4e362f9558872 from subkeys.pgp.net...
>gpg: requesting key F9558872 from hkp server subkeys.pgp.net
>gpg: key F9558872: "Marcus Huewe (RPM signing key) 
><marcus at links2linux.de>" not changed
>gpg: Total number processed: 1
>gpg:              unchanged: 1
>Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "/usr/bin/smart", line 194, in ?
>    main(sys.argv[1:])
>  File "/usr/bin/smart", line 167, in main
>    exitcode = iface.run(opts.command, opts.argv)
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/smart/interface.py", line 53, 
>in run
>    result = _command.main(self._ctrl, opts)
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/smart/commands/install.py", 
>line 173, in main
>    ctrl.commitTransaction(trans, confirm=confirm)
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/smart/control.py", line 464, 
>in commitTransaction
>    return self.commitChangeSet(trans.getChangeSet(), caching, confirm)
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/smart/control.py", line 518, 
>in commitChangeSet
>    pmclass().commit(pmcs, pkgpaths)
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/smart/backends/rpm/pm.py", 
>line 202, in commit
>    if iface.askYesNo(popen_out, False):
>  
>File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/smart/interfaces/text/interface.py", 
>line 65, in askYesNo
>    res = raw_input(mask % question).strip().lower()
>UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 
>435: ordinal not in range(128)
>linux:/home/pbc #                          
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