Bug 647134

Summary:	yum does not honour timeout=x for mirrorlists
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	Vishal Gaikwad <vgaikwad>
Component:	yum	Assignee:	James Antill <james.antill>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	BaseOS QE Security Team <qe-baseos-security>
Severity:	urgent	Docs Contact:
Priority:	urgent
Version:	5.4	CC:	ebenes, jhutar, ksrot, ohudlick, wpan
Target Milestone:	rc	Keywords:	ZStream
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Fixed In Version:	yum-3.2.22-35.el5	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Last Closed:	2011-07-21 11:23:53 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Blocks:	712127, 715351

Description Vishal Gaikwad 2010-10-27 10:29:19 UTC

Description of problem:
yum fails to take into account the timeout=x value when using mirrorlists. yum will attempt to conect to a mirrorlist taking some 3 minutes before it decides it cannot conect. If we use baseurl this hnours the timeout parameter. 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
I added this in /etc/yum.repos.d/rhel.repo

[test]
name=test
mirrorlist=http://10.xx.xx.xx/mirrolist
enabled=1


then I set the iptables rule on this machine and run "yum update". 

If the rule is 
iptables -I OUTPUT 1 -p tcp --dport 80  -j DROP

yum will timeout after 3 mins.

If the rule is
iptables -I OUTPUT 1 -p tcp --dport 80  -j REJECT

yum will timeout almost immediately. Same thing if the file is not there, permissions denied etc.
  
Actual results:
yum will timeout after 3 mins,

Expected results:
yum should timeout as per the timeout parameter

Additional info:

Comment 7 James Antill 2011-01-18 14:19:19 UTC

 Pretty sure this is the commit, that fixes it:

http://yum.baseurl.org/gitweb?p=yum.git;a=commitdiff;h=7cdcde9ffb03d66b202b6068ed90b370abe94a45


...however also note that we have:

http://yum.baseurl.org/gitweb?p=yum.git;a=commitdiff;h=841bd2dec6baeee45732582f7f489b0e4d5dc2f9

...which is much more recent, for downloading gpgkeys.

Comment 22 James Antill 2011-06-02 17:07:27 UTC

*** Bug 709984 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 40 errata-xmlrpc 2011-07-21 11:23:53 UTC

An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-1060.html