Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 160323
Yum fails if proxy doesn't support byte ranges
Last modified: 2014-01-21 17:52:03 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050524 Fedora/1.0.4-4 Firefox/1.0.4 Description of problem: This is a follow-up to unresolved bug 134294 and is also connected with bug 140387. Under our current corporate IT security policy, our HTTP and FTP proxy servers are not permitted to support byte ranges. This has been an issue since yum 2.1 which I have worked around by sticking with yum 2.0.7. However, I notice that in FC4, the headers folder is missing from the updates directory (apart from at ayo.freshrpms.net ?). If the header.info approach is being phased out, I'm going to be stuck soon. So ... 1) Can yum be modified to avoid using byte ranges in environments where they are not supported? 2) Why are update headers only available at ayo.freshrpms.net ? If they can be posted there, please could they also appear at fedora.redhat.com Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): yum-2.3.2-7 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run yum install cups-devel (for example) Actual Results: Repository updates-released already added, not adding again Repository base already added, not adding again Setting up Install Process Setting up repositories base 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 updates-released 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 extras 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 Reading repository metadata in from local files Parsing package install arguments Resolving Dependencies --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait. ---> Downloading header for cups-devel to pack into transaction set. http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/4/i386/core/Fedora/RPMS/cups-devel-1.1.23-15.i386.rpm: [Errno 4] IOError: HTTP Error 404: None Trying other mirror. Error: failure: Fedora/RPMS/cups-devel-1.1.23-15.i386.rpm from base: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try. Expected Results: I will do the following: [install: cups-devel 1:1.1.23-15.i386] Is this ok [y/N]: y Downloading Packages Running test transaction: Test transaction complete, Success! cups-devel 100 % done 1/1 Installed: cups-devel 1:1.1.23-15.i386 Transaction(s) Complete Additional info:
http byterange support is a necessary part of yum. We need to be able to download only a portion of the file to get important information. We won't be adding yum 2.0.X headers support back into FC4 or FC5. There may be otherways to work around the need for byte-ranges in the future but for now there is no option.