---
 createrepo/yumbased.py |    2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

Index: createrepo-0.9/createrepo/yumbased.py
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--- createrepo-0.9.orig/createrepo/yumbased.py	2008-08-26 11:41:13.000000000 +0100
+++ createrepo-0.9/createrepo/yumbased.py	2008-08-26 11:37:01.000000000 +0100
@@ -37,6 +37,8 @@ class CreateRepoPackage(YumLocalPackage)
         self._hdrend = None
         
     def _xml(self, item):
+        if item == []:
+                return []	
         return xml.sax.saxutils.escape(item)
         
     def _do_checksum(self):