yum commands fail when running under LANG=ja_JP

[Alex Taylor]

Running any yum command on a Japanese OS/2 system, or any language system when SET LANG=ja_JP has been set, results only in an error output similar to the following.

[E:\]yum list updates
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/@unixroot/usr/lib/python2.7/site.py", line 550, in <module>
    main()
  File "/@unixroot/usr/lib/python2.7/site.py", line 540, in main
    setencoding()
  File "/@unixroot/usr/lib/python2.7/site.py", line 494, in setencoding
    sys.setdefaultencoding(encoding) # Needs Python Unicode build !

Using yum 3.2.27-6 and python 2.7.6-10.

(IIRC, this seems to be a somewhat different error message than I got under the same circumstances with python 2.6.)

The workaround is to run SET LANG=en_US before running any yum command, but it's difficult for me to ask the user(s) I'm supporting to do that.

[Alex Taylor]

Correction: with Python 2.6, "SET LANG=en_US" was a sufficient workaround.

However, with Python 2.7, in addition to issuing "SET LANG=en_US", it was also necessary to "chcp 850". (Naturally this only works if 850 is one of the prepared codepages in CONFIG.SYS.)

I suspect this is a Python error rather than specifically a yum error.

[Lewis Rosenthal]

Related to #182.

[Silvan Scherrer]

I wonder if this is still the case with the latest python. Alex could you please try?

[Alex Taylor]

Looking good on preliminary tests!

Did the following:

• add file /etc/rpm/platform with 'i686-OS/2-OS/2'
• chcp 850, set lang=en_US
• yum install netlabs-exp
• yum update os2-base
• yum update python

Close OS/2 window, open new command prompt with default JP lang and codepage. Ran 'yum update yum'. Operation ran successfully with output in Japanese. Then ran yum update on several other packages. Same result.

This seems to be a success.

[Yuri Dario]

great!

Please close this ticket as soon as you think it is fixed.

[Silvan Scherrer]

no more feedback since 3 month, so I consider it done and working.