On Mon, 2005-06-13 at 12:54 -0400, Janina Sajka wrote: > Matthew Miller writes: > > On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 10:53:26AM -0400, seth vidal wrote: > > > On Sat, 2005-06-11 at 10:46 -0400, Janina Sajka wrote: > > > > Would it be useful to have yum NOT fail when one repo happens to be > > > > offline? Even if the best/newest version of a package should happen to > > > > be in that repo, I would find it helpful to get the best available at > > > > the moment knowing that the latest and greatest version will be picked > > > > up later on 'yum update,' etc. > > > very dangerous behavior, actually. Especially when you have a local repo > > > that has specifically needed versions of some packages. > > > > Instead, if one fails and you *know* it's okay, --disablerepo it and try > > again. > > > > I do exactly that, but the list of --disablerepo switches gets a tad > tedious to build. It supports globbing: yum --disablerepo \* --enablerepo base <command> Paul
