From 70418df0af51a2d21dc177e9cc69b3f154cf2e80 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: FeRD (Frank Dana) <ferdnyc@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 14 2025 13:35:15 +0000
Subject: patch: Execute subprocess in text mode


This prevents `fedpkg patch suffix` aborting with the error message
"Could not execute patch: write() argument must be str, not bytes".

Signed-off-by: FeRD (Frank Dana) <ferdnyc@gmail.com>

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diff --git a/pyrpkg/__init__.py b/pyrpkg/__init__.py
index ad5ee31..724a4a4 100644
--- a/pyrpkg/__init__.py
+++ b/pyrpkg/__init__.py
@@ -2178,6 +2178,7 @@ class Commands(object):
             self.log.debug('Running %s', ' '.join(cmd))
             (output, errors) = subprocess.Popen(cmd, stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
                                                 stderr=subprocess.PIPE,
+                                                text=True,
                                                 cwd=self.path).communicate()
         except Exception as e:
             raise rpkgError('Error running gendiff: %s' % e)