I thought this was fixed already.. Does it fail with --noplugins, too?  The skip_if_unavailable is in effect when requesting "primary" or "all" metadata only.

It might be the langpack plugin, asking for "comps"..

I can confirm that this bug is still in effect with the "--noplugins" flag.

But only for certain yum commands. "yum install" works, but "yum remove" does not.

That's possible, "yum remove" does not set up repos unless dependencies need to be resolved.. but most "simple" package removals work, I assume?  Seems to be fixed upstream already (complex removals work, skipping unreachable repositories).  Do you have a "yum remove" reproducer?

This is still an issue in the newest version of rhel (6.4), with trivial removals:

# package-cleanup --leaves
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
NetworkManager-glib-0.8.1-43.el6.x86_64
libarchive-2.8.3-4.el6_2.x86_64
libertas-usb8388-firmware-5.110.22.p23-3.1.el6.noarch
libstdc++-4.4.7-3.el6.i686

# yum remove NetworkManager-glib --noplugins
Setting up Remove Process
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package NetworkManager-glib.x86_64 1:0.8.1-43.el6 will be erased
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
<stripped> : [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 22 - "The requested URL returned error: 404 Not Found"
Trying other mirror.
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: <stripped> . Please verify its path and try again
 You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
 You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodiges


All of my repos have "skip_if_unavailable=1"

I can't reproduce it on 6.5, could you please provide a reproducer?


# yum install vala
Loaded plugins: product-id, rhnplugin, security, subscription-manager, verify
This system is not registered to Red Hat Subscription Management. You can use subscription-manager to register.
This system is receiving updates from RHN Classic or RHN Satellite.
http://internal/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 6 - "Couldn't resolve host 'internal'"
Trying other mirror.
repo-01022604                                                                    | 1.9 kB     00:00 ... 
repo-01022604/primary                                                            |  205 B     00:00 ... 
rhel-x86_64-server-6                                                             | 1.8 kB     00:00     
rhel-x86_64-server-6/primary                                                     |  17 MB     00:14

(In reply to Valentina Mukhamedzhanova from comment #6)
> I can't reproduce it on 6.5, could you please provide a reproducer?

# cat /etc/yum.repos.d/test.repo 
[test]
name=test
baseurl=http://myserver.cooldomain.org/repo
skip_if_unavailable=1
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0

# yum -y install aide
# yum clean all
# yum remove aide --noplugins

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-2014-1410.html