Description of problem: yum cannot remove packages without network, solution/workarounds such as use cache or disabling all repos are non obvious. How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. severe machines connection to repos 2. attempt yum remove of any package Actual results: process fails while trying to update repo data Expected results: process continues as all the data it needs to remove a package should already be present on the system, or at least provide a clear path to work arounds Additional info: All frontends for yum inherit this problem, and non familiar users get stumped by this. Maybe a 'localremove' option is needed which bypasses updating of repo data.
imho yum remove should never require network or a filed cache. yum -C remove does not work, when the cache is empty. Also when I run yum clean all yum clean all The second time yum wants to download repository data, which is totally strange but it seems to be an related issue: yum checks for repository data even when it does not need them.
yum clean requiring a download should be fixed as of yum 3.2.4 or 3.2.5.
(In reply to comment #2) > yum clean requiring a download should be fixed as of yum 3.2.4 or 3.2.5. I just tried yum 3.2.5 from updates-testing, there it is fixed. I am not sure, whether or not I had this problem with 3.2.4, I installed it on Sep 08 11:22 UTC. When I calculated correctly, I posted here on Sep 09 13:14 UTC, so I guess it is not fixed in 3.2.4. yum remove still wants network access, so the two issues seem not to be related.
In case this bug was really fixed in 3.2.5, it is broken 3.2.8 again: Steps to reproduce: (istanbul is here an example package) 1) yum install istanbul 2) yum clean all 3a) yum -C remove istanbul 3b) yum remove istanbul Results: 3a) does not work, because yum wants some repository data, e.g. Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: fedora. Please verify its path and try again 3b) yum starts to download repository data Expected Results: yum removes istanbul in steps 3a and 3b without downloading repository data.
It was fixed in 3.2.5 and yes it re-break with 3.2.8 but for a different reason.
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This is still the case in rawhide. And it's due to the changes to make the pkgSack an attribute of the tsInfo, so when we set up the tsInfo, we then need repodata.
I can still see this in yum-3.2.17-2.fc9.noarch
It's also going to be true in 3.2.18, it's not as easy to fix as you might expect (having yum remove not need metadata). There's always "rpm -e" :)
As a work around you can do: yum -C --disablerepo='*' remove instanbul
fixed in in 3.2.20 - which is available in updates-testing for everything.