Bug 1274211 – [RFE] Add strict mode to yum to return error if any requested packages were not available

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Bug 1274211 - [RFE] Add strict mode to yum to return error if any requested packages were not available

Summary:	[RFE] Add strict mode to yum to return error if any requested packages were n...

Status:	CLOSED ERRATA

Aliases:	None

Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Classification:	Red Hat
Component:	yum (Show other bugs)
Sub Component:
Version:	7.2
Hardware:	Unspecified Unspecified

Priority	high Severity urgent
Target Milestone:	rc
Target Release:	---
Assigned To:	Valentina Mukhamedzhanova
QA Contact:	Eva Mrakova
Docs Contact:	Jiri Herrmann

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Keywords:	FutureFeature

Duplicates:	1349693 1429685 (view as bug list)
Depends On:	1267234
Blocks:	1296649 1313485 1384256 1289025 1299750 1358495
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Reported:	2015-10-22 05:34 EDT by Stephen Tweedie
Modified:	2017-07-20 11:23 EDT (History)
CC List:	9 users (show)

See Also:
Fixed In Version:	yum-3.4.3-133.el7
Doc Type:	Release Note
Doc Text:	New "skip_missing_names_on_install" and "skip_missing_names_on_update" options for yum The "skip_missing_names_on_install" and "skip_missing_names_on_update" options have been added to yum repository configuration. With "skip_missing_names_on_install" set to "False" in the `/etc/yum.conf` file, using the "yum install" command fails if yum cannot find one of the specified packages, groups, or RPM files. With "skip_missing_names_on_update" set to "False", using the "yum update" command fails if yum cannot find one of the specified packages, groups, or RPM files, or if they are available, but not installed.
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Clones:	1358495 (view as bug list)
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Last Closed:	2016-11-04 01:29:54 EDT
Type:	Bug
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Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHBA-2016:2397	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	yum bug fix and enhancement update	2016-11-03 09:55:12 EDT

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Description Stephen Tweedie 2015-10-22 05:34:40 EDT

Description of problem:
"yum install" currently returns success if any of the requested packages were installed.  This masks errors if some of those packages were unavailable.

In a build environment (such as "docker build" executing a Dockerfile), failure to install a package is an error condition and should fail the build.  Otherwise the user is left debugging an incompletely built environment.

Failures can happen for all sorts of reasons --- transient errors, misconfigured repos or entitlement, or simple typos; and it is important to give the user prompt feedback when such failures occur, and to fail automated builds.


The preferred solution would allow us to configure a docker base image to select strict error handling for such cases as a default, without users being required to manually add a yum command line switch.  A yum.conf setting or installable yum plugin would work, for example.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
yum-3.4.3-125.el7.noarch

Comment 1 James Antill 2015-10-26 11:45:57 EDT

Note that one way to do this that works in el7.0 is:

ENV ipkgs zsh aslfjalf vim-enhanced iftop
RUN sh -c "for i in ${ipkgs}; do yum -y install-n \$i || exit 1; done"

Comment 7 John Jarvis 2016-03-02 10:08:58 EST

Flagging for RHEL 7.2.z review.

Comment 21 Valentina Mukhamedzhanova 2016-06-28 08:42:38 EDT

*** Bug 1349693 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 28 errata-xmlrpc 2016-11-04 01:29:54 EDT

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2016-2397.html

Comment 29 Valentina Mukhamedzhanova 2017-06-08 04:54:10 EDT

*** Bug 1429685 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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