Pulp

Pulp fails with cryptic error message when trying to sync an inconsistent repository that has different set of packages in metadata files (e.g. primary.xml and other.xml).

The error message provided by Pulp is:

'\\xff\\xff\\xff\\xff\\xb0!\\x99\\x07'

Whole error:

Sync Incomplete 

PLP0000: Importer indicated a failed response

     {"yum_importer"=>
       {"content"=>
         {"size_total"=>5681420084,
          "items_left"=>10,
          "items_total"=>64,
          "state"=>"FAILED",
          "size_left"=>1486145600,
          "details"=>
           {"rpm_total"=>64, "rpm_done"=>54, "drpm_total"=>0, "drpm_done"=>0},
          "error"=>"'\\xff\\xff\\xff\\xff\\xb0!\\x99\\x07'",
          "error_details"=>[]},
        "comps"=>{"state"=>"NOT_STARTED"},
        "purge_duplicates"=>{"state"=>"NOT_STARTED"},
        "distribution"=>
         {"items_total"=>0,
          "state"=>"NOT_STARTED",
          "error_details"=>[],
          "items_left"=>0},
        "errata"=>{"state"=>"NOT_STARTED"},
        "metadata"=>{"state"=>"FINISHED"}}},

Please fix Pulp to provide some meaningful error messages.