From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20060202 Fedora/1.0.7-1.2.fc4 Firefox/1.0.7 Description of problem: Whenever fedora.redhat is down, the mirror list cannot be found, so yum won't work. The error message that is currently provided ("Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: updates-released") isn't very clear. To not worry or confuse users, could this error message be made clearer? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: N/A Additional info:
This is the same error message as when all requests fail. Unfortunately, this doesn't allow a user to distinguish between all of the mirrors failing (or baseurls, depending upon config) and the mirrorlist not being reachable. If mirrorlist is set, and yum is unable to retrieve the specified URL, it should report a more descriptive message, such as: Unable to retrieve mirror list for repo: base It could then exit with any other error, including the current one. I realize that combining options may allow other URLs not provided by the mirrorlist to be used, so making a mirrorlist failure a fatal error may not be reasonable.
I'm changing the version to 'devel'. This enhancement needs to be fixed for future releases. Once fixed in devel, we can talk about backporting it.
We actually print out that the mirror list can't be opened now.