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Bug 880968

Summary: yum --enablerepo downloads metadata too early with certain plugins
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Patrik Kis <pkis>
Component: yumAssignee: Packaging Maintenance Team <packaging-team-maint>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Patrik Kis <pkis>
Severity: medium Docs Contact:
Priority: medium    
Version: 6.4CC: james.antill, ksrot, packaging-team
Target Milestone: rc   
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Hardware: Unspecified   
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Fixed In Version: yum-3.2.29-36.el6 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2013-02-21 10:13:09 UTC Type: ---
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Description Patrik Kis 2012-11-28 09:57:09 UTC
+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #773512 +++

Description of problem:

I made a yum call with a typo:

yum upodate kernel --enablerepo=updates-testing (I meant ... update ...)

It seems yum does a lot of not useful things before it sees the syntax error:

yum upodate kernel --enablerepo=updates-testing
Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
------ begin of my comment: this part not needed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!-----------
updates-testing/metalink                                 |  18 kB     00:00     
updates-testing                                          | 4.7 kB     00:00     
updates-testing/primary_db                               | 1.5 MB     00:01     
updates-testing/group_gz                                 | 431 kB     00:00
------ end of my comment: this part not needed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!-------     
No such command: upodate. Please use /usr/bin/yum --help


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
------ my comment: not needed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!-----------

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.enter a yum cmd with a syntactically wrong subcommand
2.
3.
  
Actual results:
No immediate syntax check

Expected results:
immediate syntax check

Additional info:

--- Additional comment from Zdeněk Pavlas on 2012-02-24 02:17:37 EST ---

*** Bug 796757 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Note, the above two scenarios (one here and one in 796757) can be reproduced on RHEL-6.3 but need either langpacks or fastestmirror plugin.

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2013-02-21 10:13:09 UTC
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2013-0406.html