Bug 1274211

Summary:	[RFE] Add strict mode to yum to return error if any requested packages were not available
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	Reporter:	Stephen Tweedie <sct>
Component:	yum	Assignee:	Valentina Mukhamedzhanova <vmukhame>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Eva Mrakova <emrakova>
Severity:	urgent	Docs Contact:	Jiri Herrmann <jherrman>
Priority:	high
Version:	7.2	CC:	bbaude, brian.murrell, emrakova, hxx_118, james.antill, jherrman, jjarvis, mkolbas, vmukhame
Target Milestone:	rc	Keywords:	FutureFeature
Target Release:	---
Hardware:	Unspecified
OS:	Unspecified
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version:	yum-3.4.3-133.el7	Doc Type:	Release Note
Doc Text:	New "skip_missing_names_on_install" and "skip_missing_names_on_update" options for yum The "skip_missing_names_on_install" and "skip_missing_names_on_update" options have been added to yum repository configuration. With "skip_missing_names_on_install" set to "False" in the `/etc/yum.conf` file, using the "yum install" command fails if yum cannot find one of the specified packages, groups, or RPM files. With "skip_missing_names_on_update" set to "False", using the "yum update" command fails if yum cannot find one of the specified packages, groups, or RPM files, or if they are available, but not installed.	Story Points:	---
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Clones:	1358495 (view as bug list)		Environment:
Last Closed:	2016-11-04 05:29:54 UTC	Type:	Bug
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oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
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Bug Depends On:	1267234
Bug Blocks:	1289025, 1296649, 1299750, 1313485, 1358495, 1384256

Description Stephen Tweedie 2015-10-22 09:34:40 UTC

Description of problem:
"yum install" currently returns success if any of the requested packages were installed.  This masks errors if some of those packages were unavailable.

In a build environment (such as "docker build" executing a Dockerfile), failure to install a package is an error condition and should fail the build.  Otherwise the user is left debugging an incompletely built environment.

Failures can happen for all sorts of reasons --- transient errors, misconfigured repos or entitlement, or simple typos; and it is important to give the user prompt feedback when such failures occur, and to fail automated builds.


The preferred solution would allow us to configure a docker base image to select strict error handling for such cases as a default, without users being required to manually add a yum command line switch.  A yum.conf setting or installable yum plugin would work, for example.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
yum-3.4.3-125.el7.noarch

Comment 1 James Antill 2015-10-26 15:45:57 UTC

Note that one way to do this that works in el7.0 is:

ENV ipkgs zsh aslfjalf vim-enhanced iftop
RUN sh -c "for i in ${ipkgs}; do yum -y install-n \$i || exit 1; done"

Comment 7 John Jarvis 2016-03-02 15:08:58 UTC

Flagging for RHEL 7.2.z review.

Comment 21 Valentina Mukhamedzhanova 2016-06-28 12:42:38 UTC

*** Bug 1349693 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 28 errata-xmlrpc 2016-11-04 05:29:54 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2016-2397.html

Comment 29 Valentina Mukhamedzhanova 2017-06-08 08:54:10 UTC

*** Bug 1429685 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***