Description of problem: If there is a bad mirror and the repomd.xml is empty it should try one of the other mirrors but it doesnt. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): yum-2.2.0-0.fc3 How reproducible: well right now a livina mirror is acting up so if you try now it will - if the mirror fixes... Steps to Reproduce: 1.0 here are my mirrors baseurl=http://livna.cat.pdx.edu/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/RPMS.unstable http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/RPMS.unstable 2. they dont work (see error below 3. rearrange them like this baseurl=http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/RPMS.unstable http://livna.cat.pdx.edu/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/RPMS.unstable 4. they work Actual results: //var/cache/yum/livna-unstable/repomd.xml:1: parser error : Document is empty ^ //var/cache/yum/livna-unstable/repomd.xml:1: parser error : Start tag expected,'<' not found Expected results: try the other mirror when repomd.xml is empty Additional info:
please see: http://devel.linux.duke.edu/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=415