Bug 2039906

Summary:	Invalid configuration value: failovermethod=priority in repo config files
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	Reporter:	Suraj Raskar <sraskar>
Component:	libdnf	Assignee:	Marek Blaha <mblaha>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Eva Mrakova <emrakova>
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Priority:	low
Version:	8.5	CC:	james.antill, mbanas, mblaha, naresh.sukhija_ext, nsella, sujagtap
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Description Suraj Raskar 2022-01-12 17:23:57 UTC

Description of problem:

After updating dnf package to its latest version, it starts complaining if any repo config file has "failovermethod=priority" parameter -

# rpm -qa | grep -i dnf
dnf-4.7.0-4.el8.noarch

Invalid configuration value: failovermethod=priority in /etc/yum.repos.d/pgdg-redhat-all.repo; Configuration: OptionBinding with id "failovermethod" does not exist
Invalid configuration value: failovermethod=priority in /etc/yum.repos.d/pgdg-redhat-all.repo; Configuration: OptionBinding with id "failovermethod" does not exist
Invalid configuration value: failovermethod=priority in /etc/yum.repos.d/pgdg-redhat-all.repo; Configuration: OptionBinding with id "failovermethod" does not exist
Invalid configuration value: failovermethod=priority in /etc/yum.repos.d/pgdg-redhat-all.repo; Configuration: OptionBinding with id "failovermethod" does not exist
Invalid configuration value: failovermethod=priority in /etc/yum.repos.d/pgdg-redhat-all.repo; Configuration: OptionBinding with id "failovermethod" does not exist
Invalid configuration value: failovermethod=priority in /etc/yum.repos.d/pgdg-redhat-all.repo; Configuration: OptionBinding with id "failovermethod" does not exist
Invalid configuration value: failovermethod=priority in /etc/yum.repos.d/pgdg-redhat-all.repo; Configuration: OptionBinding with id "failovermethod" does not exist

- Works fine with dnf-4.4.2-11.el8.noarch

- However this parameter is not being used in RH repos but wanted to verify if thats the bug.

Comment 2 Lukáš Hrázký 2022-01-17 14:26:10 UTC

Hello, this is intentional, the option is not supported by dnf. You can remove it from all repo definitions in /etc/yum.repos.d/pgdg-redhat-all.repo and that'll get rid of the messages.

Comment 4 naresh.sukhija_ext 2022-01-17 14:35:20 UTC

We currently have the setting failovermethod=priority to support multiple yum servers, our dnf client configuration has this kind of lines:

baseurl = http://server1/repo
          http://server2/repo

Please suggest if after removing failovermethod=priority, any other option needs to be added or if dnf is intelligent enough to use the second server in case first server is unavailable

Comment 11 Marek Blaha 2022-06-13 05:31:03 UTC

PR that fixes the issue: https://github.com/rpm-software-management/libdnf/pull/1538
Test: https://github.com/rpm-software-management/ci-dnf-stack/pull/1126

Comment 18 errata-xmlrpc 2022-11-08 10:47:13 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 (libdnf bug fix and enhancement update), 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-2022:7711