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Description of problem: I have skip_if_unavailable=1 set for an internal coverity repo. If I am not logged in to our vpn, occasionally an update fails for the following reason: http://cov01.lab.eng.brq.redhat.com/coverity/install/covscan/fedora/19/x86_64/repodata/ee35c3205ce6ead9b1ffc767f5f02757e993d2e6945a4c21989c53537ae522fe-filelists.sqlite.bz2: [Errno 14] curl#6 - "Could not resolve host: cov01.lab.eng.brq.redhat.com; No address associated with hostname" Trying other mirror. Error: failure: repodata/ee35c3205ce6ead9b1ffc767f5f02757e993d2e6945a4c21989c53537ae522fe-filelists.sqlite.bz2 from covscan-fedora: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try. http://cov01.lab.eng.brq.redhat.com/coverity/install/covscan/fedora/19/x86_64/repodata/ee35c3205ce6ead9b1ffc767f5f02757e993d2e6945a4c21989c53537ae522fe-filelists.sqlite.bz2: [Errno 14] curl#6 - "Could not resolve host: cov01.lab.eng.brq.redhat.com; No address associated with hostname" skip_if_unavailable should consistently skip this repo. I don't know why some updates are fine and some end like this. "yum check-update" runs fine. "yum -y update" didn't. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): yum-3.4.3-106.fc19.noarch How reproducible: intermittently
This is a known bug (BZ 852643). skip-if-unavailable works only at repository setup time. In this case the local copy was valid, so the repo was not disabled. Then, during depsolving, a file dependency needed to be resolved. Yum tried to download filelists for all enabled repositories, including this one. It's considered a fatal error when depsolver can't access filelists. You can only work this around by something like: [coverity] ... skip_if_unavailable=1 mdpolicy=group:all