Bug 520179

Summary: yum downloads files from file:/// repositories before installing them
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert>
Component: yumAssignee: Seth Vidal <skvidal>
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Description Chuck Ebbert 2009-08-28 18:50:37 UTC
Description of problem:
yum downloads files from file:/// repositories before installing them

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
yum-3.2.23-14.fc12
python-urlgrabber-3.9.0-8.fc12

How reproducible:
Run 'yum update' with repositories mounted on a cifs filesystem.
Watch yum download all the updates before installing.

Repo:

[buffalo-rawhide]
name=Fedora $releasever - $basearch - Updates
failovermethod=priority
baseurl=file:///media/l/linux/fedora/mirror/rawhide/$basearch/os/
#mirrorlist=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=updates-released-f$releasever&arch=$basearch
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-$basearch

Comment 1 Chuck Ebbert 2009-08-28 18:55:31 UTC
Also happens on F-11 with yum-3.2.23-3.fc11 and python-urlgrabber-3.0.0-15.fc11

Comment 2 seth vidal 2009-09-01 19:47:24 UTC
I cannot replicate this on any version of yum right now. Could you post all of your .repo files and your yum.conf just to be sure:

do you have an /etc/yum.repos.d dir AND an /etc/yum/repos.d dir?

thanks

Comment 3 Chuck Ebbert 2009-09-02 02:00:13 UTC
(In reply to comment #2)
> I cannot replicate this on any version of yum right now. Could you post all of
> your .repo files and your yum.conf just to be sure:
> 
> do you have an /etc/yum.repos.d dir AND an /etc/yum/repos.d dir?

no.

I straced yum and it stats the .rpm packages it's going to install. Then it opens /proc/mounts and reads it, then stats all the mounted ext3 and ext4 filesystems. It really looks like it's trying to see if the file:/// URL corresponds to a mounted local filesystem, but seems not to understand that cifs is one of them.

Comment 4 seth vidal 2009-09-02 04:02:39 UTC
just for the sake of argument - can you setup a truly local repo and test it so we can be certain this is a cifs thing and not something else?

Comment 5 Chuck Ebbert 2009-09-07 22:51:46 UTC
(In reply to comment #4)
> just for the sake of argument - can you setup a truly local repo and test it so
> we can be certain this is a cifs thing and not something else?  

I tried it from a locally mounted ext2 filesystem and it still downloaded the packages before installing. I did notice two things though, that are the same on the CIFS and local mounts:

1. The repo is owned by a user other than root.

2. There is a drpms directory but it's empty because I don't mirror that.

Comment 6 seth vidal 2009-09-08 13:55:30 UTC
The owner of the rpms makes no difference whatsoever.

Please disable the presto plugin and re-run your test.

Comment 7 seth vidal 2009-09-17 14:27:48 UTC
Chuck - a reping on the thing from last week - please disable the presto plugin and re-run your test.

Thanks,

Comment 8 seth vidal 2009-10-12 21:21:14 UTC
I can't replicate this - and neither can anyone else afaict.

if you can do the tests from above that would help

reopen then

Comment 9 Chuck Ebbert 2009-10-16 11:58:53 UTC
yum-presto is not even installed on one of the machines where this happens

Comment 10 seth vidal 2009-10-16 12:05:39 UTC
Are any of these machines rhts machines? Is there any way I can take a look b/c I have no idea what's happening here.

Comment 11 seth vidal 2009-10-19 20:36:05 UTC
okay - I've setup a cifs share using samba3, mounted it using mount and added it as a repo with the repo config of:

[cifs-empty]
name = cifs
baseurl=file:///mnt/cifs-test/tmp/empty-repo
enabled=0
gpgcheck=0


I enabled the repo and I installed one pkg from this repository.

The package was accessed directly from this location, it was not downloaded to /var/cache/yum/....

So I cannot make this one happen at all. Any suggestions on how to duplicate this bug?