Description of problem: When e.g. installing a package via yum and one of the repos is not reachable yum fails. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): yum-3.0-6 How reproducible: make one of the repos not reachable (e.g via firewall) and try to install package (from other repos) Actual results: yum fails and no package is installed Expected results: it should report the error but proceed to other repos Additional info: The actual output: [root@erazim tmp]# yum install fubar Loading "installonlyn" plugin Setting up Install Process Setting up repositories http://ftp.belnet.be/packages/dries.ulyssis.org/fedora/linux/6/i386/dries/RPMS/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 12] Timeout: <urlopen error timed out> Trying other mirror. Error: Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: dries [root@erazim tmp]# I have deliberately selected bogus package name to see what will happen. If one of the repos is down user cannot even install security updates from the standard repo.
no. that's ultimately pretty dangerous behavior. There's been much discussion of this on the yum mailing list.