When I run the createrepo command (from the createrepo_c package) in Leap 15.5, such as:

/usr/bin/createrepo --update /home/mrbill/Documents/repositories/codeweavers/openSUSE

I get the error message:

C_CREATEREPOLIB: Critical: cr_metadata_load_xml: Error encountered while parsing

and createrepo seems to go into an infinite loop and must be killed.

Here is the package information and full command output:

createrepo_c-0.16.0-3.3.1.x86_64
libcreaterepo_c0-0.16.0-3.3.1.x86_64
python3-createrepo_c-0.16.0-3.3.1.x86_64

mrbill@rocky:~> /usr/bin/createrepo --update /home/mrbill/Documents/repositories/codeweavers/openSUSE
Directory walk started
Directory walk done - 9 packages
C_CREATEREPOLIB: Critical: cr_metadata_load_xml: Error encountered while parsing
Loaded information about 0 packages
Temporary output repo path: /home/mrbill/Documents/repositories/codeweavers/openSUSE/.repodata/
Preparing sqlite DBs
Pool started (with 5 workers) # <-- Last line of output, where I press <Ctrl-C>.  I also have to delete the temporary .repodata directory.


I have been running this command for many, many years, beginning on a now very old, pre-Leap version of openSUSE, and do not remember ever having this problem.  I also boot Tumbleweed on the same PC, and it works as expected.  Here is the Tumbleweed package info and command output:

createrepo_c-1.0.2-2.1.x86_64
libcreaterepo_c1-1.0.2-2.1.x86_64
python3-createrepo_c-1.0.2-2.1.x86_64

mrbill@rocky:~> /usr/bin/createrepo --update /home/mrbill/Documents/repositories/codeweavers/openSUSE
Directory walk started
Directory walk done - 9 packages
Loaded information about 8 packages
Temporary output repo path: /home/mrbill/Documents/repositories/codeweavers/openSUSE/.repodata/
Pool started (with 5 workers)
Pool finished
mrbill@rocky:~>

I thought someone should know of this problem.  Thanks!