Bug 889202

Summary:	[rfe] [repos] add support for skip_if_unavailable in repository config
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Jan Vcelak <jvcelak>
Component:	dnf	Assignee:	Ales Kozumplik <akozumpl>
Status:	CLOSED NEXTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	18	CC:	akozumpl, jzeleny, kvolny, tsmetana
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Description Jan Vcelak 2012-12-20 13:46:20 UTC

Description of problem:

Yum supports skip_if_unavailable option in repositories configuration. If the repository cannot be contacted for any reason, it causes Yum not to exit with an error but to continue running.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
dnf-0.2.17-1.git6a055e6.fc18.noarch

How reproducible:
always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. set up some nonexisting repository with skip_if_unavailable=1
2. dnf/yum distro-sync
3.
  
Actual results:

# dnf distro-sync
Setting up Distribution Synchronization Process
Resolving Dependencies
--> Starting dependency resolution
Could not retrieve mirrorlist http://example error was
14: curl#7 - "Couldn't connect"
Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: example
(exit)

# yum distro-sync
Loaded plugins: auto-update-debuginfo, keys, presto, remove-with-leaves, security, show-leaves
Could not retrieve mirrorlist http://example error was
14: curl#7 - "Couldn't connect"
...
No Packages marked for Distribution Synchronization


Expected results:


Additional info:

Comment 1 Ales Kozumplik 2013-01-21 14:42:44 UTC

Some more information about this feature: this works and is a part of Yum. It got unintentionally dropped in the current DNF but should be possible to re-add.

Comment 2 Ales Kozumplik 2013-01-30 12:15:28 UTC

This is waiting for librepo[1] integration.

[1] https://github.com/tojaj/librepo

Comment 4 Ales Kozumplik 2013-04-02 14:29:09 UTC

Commit ab1da2a enables this configuration item again in DNF, will be included in version 0.3.2.

Comment 5 Ales Kozumplik 2013-04-02 15:17:06 UTC

*** Bug 920271 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***