Description of Problem: When targetting a URL via rpm -ivh, if you typo the filename, it returns "Unknown error". It should return an error in format of wget, ie "File not found." (an HTTP 404 error) How Reproducible: # rpm -ivh http://foo.cmo/rpms/goodstuff-1-1.i376.rpm Steps to Reproduce: 1. See above 2. 3. Actual Results: Less than helpful error message Expected Results: Only slightly less than helpful error message Additional Information:
rpm has a very primitive http client, just enough to get the job done. Use wget rather than rpm if you wish a more powerful http client.