This bug splits out the _original_ issue from https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=868558 , which we've turned into a report about the specific case of mirror list URLs. The initial case in that bug seems to have been one where something funky happened in the selection of a mirror, and when anaconda's code to grab the .treeinfo file from the remote mirror fired, what anaconda wound up with was some random page from somewhere related to the server http://geoadserving.coffeetree.info/ . There is apparently no sanity check that what has been retrieved _actually is_ a .treeinfo file before anaconda tries to treat it as one - it just goes ahead and assumes that whatever it got was a .treeinfo file. When it does this to something that's not a .treeinfo file, it blows up prettily. The question is exactly how to handle this better than crashing; pop up an error? What should the error say? It's not a high priority issue because this should happen fairly rarely.
anaconda-18.27-1.fc18 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 18. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/anaconda-18.27-1.fc18
for testing purposes, what should the fix for this do exactly? I can probably test it by faking up a repo with a bogus .treeinfo file.
Package anaconda-18.27-1.fc18: * should fix your issue, * was pushed to the Fedora 18 testing repository, * should be available at your local mirror within two days. Update it with: # su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing anaconda-18.27-1.fc18' as soon as you are able to. Please go to the following url: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2012-17823/anaconda-18.27-1.fc18 then log in and leave karma (feedback).
Package anaconda-18.28-1.fc18: * should fix your issue, * was pushed to the Fedora 18 testing repository, * should be available at your local mirror within two days. Update it with: # su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing anaconda-18.28-1.fc18' as soon as you are able to. Please go to the following url: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2012-17823/anaconda-18.28-1.fc18 then log in and leave karma (feedback).
anaconda-18.28-1.fc18 has been pushed to the Fedora 18 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.