Bug 212752

Description of problem:

Yum returns a confusing error when pointed to a DVD image on an external HTTP
server.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

3.0-6

How reproducible:

Always

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Take the FC 6 DVD image, and put it into /var/www/html on a server running
Apache.
2. On another server, create a suitable yum.repos.d entry pointing to the DVD
image, and disable the fedora-core.repo repository.
3. Run 'yum install' package.

  
Actual results:

# yum install gnome-vfs2.x86_64 libgcj.x86_64 libgnome.x86_64 libbonoboui.x86_64
libgnomeui.x86_64
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up Install Process
Setting up repositories
fedora-core-local         100% |=========================| 1.3 kB    00:00     
Reading repository metadata in from local files
primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 870 kB    00:00     
################################################## 2931/2931
Parsing package install arguments
Resolving Dependencies
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Downloading header for libgcj to pack into transaction set.
media://1161132068.269978%232/Fedora/RPMS/libgcj-4.1.1-30.x86_64.rpm: [Errno 4]
IOError: <urlopen error unknown url type: media>
Trying other mirror.
Error: failed to retrieve Fedora/RPMS/libgcj-4.1.1-30.x86_64.rpm from
fedora-core-local
error was [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error unknown url type: media>

Expected results:

Yum installs the package, or tell me why it cannot install it.

Additional info:

Whether or not this functionality is supported by yum, if this particular
configuration is not supported, I want it to tell me so, instead of blurting out
this completely content-free diagnostic.

I defined the repositry, in yum.repos.d, as follows:

[fedora-core-local]
name=Local copy of Fedora Core
baseurl=http://headache/dvd/
enabled=0
gpgcheck=0


"http://headache/dvd" is the root of the DVD image of FC6:

 Icon  Name                       Last modified      Size  Description          
                                                                                
   ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════   
                                                                                
 [DIR] Parent Directory                                -                        
 [DIR] Fedora/                    17-Oct-2006 20:18    -                        
 [TXT] GPL                        05-Apr-2005 14:35   18K                       
 [TXT] RELEASE-NOTES-en_US.html   17-Oct-2006 16:42  172K                       
 [TXT] RPM-GPG-KEY                15-Oct-2006 14:07  1.9K                       
 [TXT] RPM-GPG-KEY-beta           15-Oct-2006 14:07  1.7K                       
 [   ] RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora         15-Oct-2006 14:07  1.5K                       
 [   ] RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-extras  15-Oct-2006 14:07  2.0K              

...

etc...

If you notice in yum's output, it did succesfully download primary.xml's
contents, and processed it; then barfed when it tried to download the package.