--- /dev/null
+---
+ createrepo/yumbased.py | 2 ++
+ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
+
+Index: createrepo-0.9/createrepo/yumbased.py
+===================================================================
+--- 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):