Bug 438619

Summary:	why stops yum if one repo is not online?
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Reindl Harald <spam2>
Component:	yum	Assignee:	Seth Vidal <skvidal>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	8	CC:	ffesti, james.antill, katzj, pmatilai, tim.lauridsen
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Description Reindl Harald 2008-03-23 01:41:04 UTC

Hi

Is it possible to modiy yum in a way it does its work if one of the configured
repo is not availabe and only gives a warning - so you must not use
--disablerepo and get updates from all locations which are online without break

yum clean metadata && yum -y --enablerepo=updates-testing update 

primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================|  10 kB    00:00
http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/8/i386/freshrpms/repodata/repomd.xml:
[Errno 12] Timeout: <urlopen error timed out>
Trying other mirror.
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository:
freshrpms. Please verify its path and try again
[root@srv-rhsoft:~]$

Comment 1 Seth Vidal 2008-03-25 01:44:04 UTC

This is unsafe behavior as it means a user could easily miss some updates. Not
to mention that dependency calculation would very much be off.

It's been discussed many times before and the answer is no, we won't implement it.

sorry.