yum install xxx with one bad repository  with skip_if_unavailable=1 aborts entirely instead of just skipping that bad repository.

Note in my case there is no 404, but:


[paul@bofh vala]$ sudo yum install vala
Loaded plugins: auto-update-debuginfo, langpacks, refresh-packagekit
http://download.lab.bos.redhat.com/devel/dmach/repos/XXXXXXX/fedora/17/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] curl#6 - "Couldn't resolve host"
Trying other mirror.
Error: failure: repodata/repomd.xml from XXXXXXX-fedora: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.

because my VPN is down, it is not be able to resolve the internal only dns entry, so it should ignore this repository.






+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #828658 +++

Present on RHEL5 too

yum-3.2.22-40.el5



+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #769864 +++

Description of problem:
SSIA. 'yum update' does not have this problem, unreachable repos with skip_if_unavailable=1 are skipped

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
yum-3.2.29-22.el6.noarch

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. set up a repo:
[test]
name=test
baseurl=<url that is valid but returns 404>
enabled=1
skip_if_unavailable=1
2. run yum --disablerepo='*' --enablerepo test makecache
3.
  
Actual results:
yum exits complaining that it can not download info for test repo:
$BASEURL: [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 22 - "The requested URL returned error: 404"
Trying other mirror.
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: test. Please verify its path and try again

Expected results:
yum skips repo

Additional info:

--- Additional comment from zpavlas on 2012-01-12 07:19:39 EST ---

> Expected results: yum skips repo

You have enabled only one repo, and Yum did skip that.  'skip_if_unavailable=1' does not prevent Yum from printing error messages (that's intended).

Could you try '--enablerepo test --enablerepo other' too?  This works upstream, but I don't have RHEL6 at hands.  Thanks!

--- Additional comment from djasa on 2012-01-12 07:35:40 EST ---

(In reply to comment #1)
> > Expected results: yum skips repo
> 
> You have enabled only one repo, and Yum did skip that.  'skip_if_unavailable=1'
> does not prevent Yum from printing error messages (that's intended).
> 

This exactly does not work in RHEL:

# yum makecache ; echo $?
Loaded plugins: auto-update-debuginfo, refresh-packagekit, rhnplugin
[other repo metadata fetched]     
<repo_URL>: [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 22 - "The requested URL returned error: 404"
Trying other mirror.
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: <repo>. Please verify its path and try again
1

yum should ignore the error and keep going through the rest of the repos, it exits with 1 instead.

--- Additional comment from pm-rhel on 2012-06-11 21:22:41 EDT ---

This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for
inclusion in the current release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Because the affected component is not scheduled to be updated in the
current release, Red Hat is unfortunately unable to address this
request at this time. Red Hat invites you to ask your support
representative to propose this request, if appropriate and relevant,
in the next release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.