Bug 1721091

Summary: yum doesn't read config file via http any more
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Reporter: Karel Srot <ksrot>
Component: dnfAssignee: Marek Blaha <mblaha>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Jan Blazek <jblazek>
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Priority: medium    
Version: 8.0CC: allen.payne, amatej, james.antill, jcastran, mblaha, rdulhani
Target Milestone: rcKeywords: AutoVerified, FutureFeature, Triaged
Target Release: 8.0   
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Fixed In Version: dnf-4.2.17-1.el8 Doc Type: If docs needed, set a value
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Last Closed: 2020-04-28 16:47:49 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Karel Srot 2019-06-17 10:47:10 UTC 
Description of problem:

# yum -c http://localhost/my-yum-config --disableplugin=rhnplugin install test-aaa'
Config error: Config file "http://localhost/my-yum-config" does not exist


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
dnf-4.2.7-1.el8.noarch
libdnf-0.35.1-1.el8.x86_64
librepo-1.10.3-1.el8.x86_64

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. see above

Actual results:
config file specified with http:// URL is not used

Expected results:
config file specified with http:// URL is used


This is a regression, it was working fine with
dnf-4.2.6-1.el8.noarch
libdnf-0.33.0-1.el8.x86_64
librepo-1.10.1-1.el8.x86_64
Comment 2 Karel Srot 2019-06-17 11:00:54 UTC 
FYI, neither HTTPS works.
Is there a list of supported protocols?
Comment 10 Daniel Mach 2019-09-18 12:19:16 UTC 
This bug is not a regression within RHEL 8, but a different behavior to RHEL 7.
Removing Regression keyword.
Comment 13 Marek Blaha 2019-11-14 08:38:26 UTC 
PR: https://github.com/rpm-software-management/dnf/pull/1522
Comment 14 jcastran 2019-11-19 16:35:26 UTC 
*** Bug 1774126 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 21 errata-xmlrpc 2020-04-28 16:47:49 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://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2020:1823