Whenever I run yumdownloader in my regular account, I get an exception with this backtrace
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/yumdownloader", line 318, in <module>
util = YumDownloader()
File "/usr/bin/yumdownloader", line 50, in __init__
self.main()
File "/usr/bin/yumdownloader", line 87, in main
self.downloadPackages(opts)
File "/usr/bin/yumdownloader", line 247, in downloadPackages
path = repo.getPackage(download, checkfunc=checkfunc)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 840, in getPackage
if self._preload_pkg_from_system_cache(package):
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 1712, in _preload_pkg_from_system_cache
destfn = os.path.join(self.pkgdir, pname)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/posixpath.py", line 70, in join
path += '/' + b
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 14: ordinal not in range(128)
If I would dare a guess, it would be that this is because my home directory contains non-ASCII characters (/home/göran). But I haven't tried to do any debugging myself.
This happens on a Fedora system with yum-utils-1.1.24-2.fc12.noarch
