On Sat, 2004-06-05 at 19:31 +0200, lupus wrote: > why does yum have to fail when one repository fails? > I find it not logical that when one repository is down all repositories > have to fail. > > Can't you just ignore this by default? let's say you have 2 repositories base updates let's say updates is down you run yum install foo now foo exists in base and updates but the one in base is old and security-bug riddled. since updates is down you're going to get the one from foo. so if we quietly fail when a repository is down, then you get not what you expected to get. future versions of yum have a --enablerepo --disablerepo option included, so you can turn off a downed repository. but I don't want to make it the default. This is what multiple baseurls allowed per repository are all about. You can use a mirror. -sv
