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Bug 2039906 - Invalid configuration value: failovermethod=priority in repo config files
Summary: Invalid configuration value: failovermethod=priority in repo config files
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Classification: Red Hat
Component: libdnf
Version: 8.5
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
low
unspecified
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Marek Blaha
QA Contact: Eva Mrakova
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2022-01-12 17:23 UTC by Suraj Raskar
Modified: 2022-12-16 04:08 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

Fixed In Version: libdnf-0.63.0-10.el8
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Last Closed: 2022-11-08 10:47:13 UTC
Type: Bug
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pm-rhel: mirror+

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Red Hat Issue Tracker RHELPLAN-107610 0 None None None 2022-01-12 17:24:23 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2022:7711 0 None None None 2022-11-08 10:47:32 UTC

Description Suraj Raskar 2022-01-12 17:23:57 UTC 
Description of problem:

After updating dnf package to its latest version, it starts complaining if any repo config file has "failovermethod=priority" parameter -

# rpm -qa | grep -i dnf
dnf-4.7.0-4.el8.noarch

Invalid configuration value: failovermethod=priority in /etc/yum.repos.d/pgdg-redhat-all.repo; Configuration: OptionBinding with id "failovermethod" does not exist
Invalid configuration value: failovermethod=priority in /etc/yum.repos.d/pgdg-redhat-all.repo; Configuration: OptionBinding with id "failovermethod" does not exist
Invalid configuration value: failovermethod=priority in /etc/yum.repos.d/pgdg-redhat-all.repo; Configuration: OptionBinding with id "failovermethod" does not exist
Invalid configuration value: failovermethod=priority in /etc/yum.repos.d/pgdg-redhat-all.repo; Configuration: OptionBinding with id "failovermethod" does not exist
Invalid configuration value: failovermethod=priority in /etc/yum.repos.d/pgdg-redhat-all.repo; Configuration: OptionBinding with id "failovermethod" does not exist
Invalid configuration value: failovermethod=priority in /etc/yum.repos.d/pgdg-redhat-all.repo; Configuration: OptionBinding with id "failovermethod" does not exist
Invalid configuration value: failovermethod=priority in /etc/yum.repos.d/pgdg-redhat-all.repo; Configuration: OptionBinding with id "failovermethod" does not exist

- Works fine with dnf-4.4.2-11.el8.noarch

- However this parameter is not being used in RH repos but wanted to verify if thats the bug.
Comment 2 Lukáš Hrázký 2022-01-17 14:26:10 UTC 
Hello, this is intentional, the option is not supported by dnf. You can remove it from all repo definitions in /etc/yum.repos.d/pgdg-redhat-all.repo and that'll get rid of the messages.
Comment 4 naresh.sukhija_ext 2022-01-17 14:35:20 UTC 
We currently have the setting failovermethod=priority to support multiple yum servers, our dnf client configuration has this kind of lines:

baseurl = http://server1/repo
          http://server2/repo

Please suggest if after removing failovermethod=priority, any other option needs to be added or if dnf is intelligent enough to use the second server in case first server is unavailable
Comment 11 Marek Blaha 2022-06-13 05:31:03 UTC 
PR that fixes the issue: https://github.com/rpm-software-management/libdnf/pull/1538
Test: https://github.com/rpm-software-management/ci-dnf-stack/pull/1126
Comment 18 errata-xmlrpc 2022-11-08 10:47:13 UTC 
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 (libdnf bug fix and enhancement update), 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://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2022:7711
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