satellite-sync : multibyte package file names in RHN Satellite are messed up

Solution In Progress - Updated -

Issue

  • RHN Hosted, when exporting data for satellite-sync, treats database data
    (package files among others) as ISO-8859-1 data (regardless of what encoding
    is actually used in the database), which it then encodes to UTF-8 (i.e. Unicode
    encoding is merely used as a transport encoding for data which it considers
    to be ISO-Latin-1 data).

  • The same mechanism is used when RHN Satellite exports data for ISS or
    channel dump. An example XML file from an actual RHN Hosted / Satellite:

<rhn-package-file username="root" lang="" checksum-type="md5"
name="/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/español.alias" verifyflags="-1"
checksum="fa110a37cae71c37722e1b07ab6f14d4" rdev="0" groupname="root"
mtime="1152700073" file_size="72" device="2305" flags="0"
md5="fa110a37cae71c37722e1b07ab6f14d4" inode="4719131" linkto=""
file_mode="-32348"/>

Environment

  • Red Hat Satellite 5

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