Michael Stenner wrote: > One "trick" you could pull to ignore > >auth failures and not use a repo is this: > > 1) create an empty repo (run yum-arch on an empty directory > 2) in your yum conf, in a single repo section, specify two baseurls > for failover. The first is your authed repo, and the second is > the public empty repo. > 3) set the failover policy to priority > >When yum hits the first one and fails, it will move onto the second >one, which is a legitimate repo... it just doesn't have any packages. > > Mmmm - nice trick. Now you've got me thinking ... >Now, I don't claim this is a pretty solution, but it would probably >work :) Note that it may have wacky side effects if your real repo >can't be reached for some OTHER reason. > > 'Pretty' is not really a significant factor anyway - my ftp solution had been hit by the ugly stick several times before stumbling out onto the road into the path of an oncoming ugly truck :\ thanks pantz -- Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes ... That way when you do criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes!
