Bug 126163

Summary:	Please add option to download using wget or curl
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Robin Green <greenrd>
Component:	yum	Assignee:	Jeff Johnson <jbj>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
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Version:	1	CC:	uwe.menges
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Description Robin Green 2004-06-16 22:05:41 UTC

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Description of problem:
For some reason, yum keeps failing to download headers from certain
repos, with this error:

retrygrab() failed for:
  http://hipnosi.net/yum/hipnosi/headers/hatools-0-0.99.09-1hip.i386.hdr
  Executing failover method
failover: out of servers to try
Error getting file
http://hipnosi.net/yum/hipnosi/headers/hatools-0-0.99.09-1hip.i386.hdr
[Errno 7] HTTP Error (CannotSendRequest):

But then I try to d/l the same URL again using wget, and it always
works fine. So couldn't you add a configuration option to use an
external downloader (e.g. wget or curl)? You could just allow a line
for an arbitrary shell command in the config file - that would be most
flexible.

Comment 1 Seth Vidal 2004-06-16 22:14:02 UTC

No. That's a mess and does not bear out well for using it as a library.

Comment 2 Uwe Menges 2004-07-15 09:05:54 UTC

So could you then please use wget's download code (copy & paste if it
must be) at least as additional download method, if not as *the*
download method?

Fact is that yum is not able to download something where wget has no
problems at all.

I suffer from the same problems behind our corporate Inktomi proxy
(probably broken, gpg needs undocumented(!) option "broken-http-proxy"
to get keys), updating with yum is a pita here because almost at every
package yum fails. When I fetch the failed package url with wget, yum
can afterwards get the url, too.

Using up2date -u works well.

The error shows up as follows (-d 10): 

localhdrpath=
/var/cache/yum/updates-released/headers/xorg-x11-ISO8859-9-75dpi-fonts-0-6.7.0-5.i386.hdr
for xorg-x11-ISO8859-9-75dpi-fonts i386
getting
/var/cache/yum/updates-released/headers/xorg-x11-ISO8859-9-75dpi-fonts-0-6.7.0-5.i386.hdr
failover: baseURL =
http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/fedora.redhat.com/linux/core/updates/2/i386/
failover: path =
/headers/xorg-x11-ISO8859-9-75dpi-fonts-0-6.7.0-5.i386.hdr
retrygrab() failed for:
 
http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/fedora.redhat.com/linux/core/updates/2/i386//headers/xorg-x11-ISO8859-9-75dpi-fonts-0-6.7.0-5.i386.hdr
  Executing failover method
failover: out of servers to try
Error getting file
http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/fedora.redhat.com/linux/core/updates/2/i386//headers/xorg-x11-ISO8859-9-75dpi-fonts-0-6.7.0-5.i386.hdr
[Errno 6] ERROR: Url Return no Content-Length  - something is wrong