On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 03:47:15PM -0500, you [seth vidal] wrote: > > > A similar issue: I have the following entry in yum.conf > > > > [Freshrpms.net] > > name=Fedora core 1 Freshrpms.net > > baseurl=http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/1/$basearch/freshrpms > > > > in addition to the Fedora Core development mirror. If connection to > > ayo.freshrpms.net fails (which it does quite often for some reason), the > > whole "yum update" batch fails. The same goes for the livna.org server. To > > me it would make more sense if yum went ahead and updated at least the > > Fedora Core devel packages. > > This is quite intentional. IF one of the repositories fails you will get > very different answers especially if repositories provide overlapping > sets of packages as many repositories do. Hmm, I see. I don't suppose you have any plans to make this overridable by yum.conf options? (Something like repository priorities perhaps - if repository of lesser priority fails, the higher priority ones could still be upgraded, since any overlap would be solved by using the higher priority repository.) -- v -- v@xxxxxx
