On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 07:17:49PM +0200, Tanim Islam wrote: > I was wondering if there is a (relatively) easy > way of making yum fail-soft? By that I mean if > none of the mirrors of a repository are > open/accessible, that yum continues rather than > aborts? I mention this b/c I have quite a long > list of repositories in my yum.conf file. The short answer is that it's not going to happen. This has been discussed a number of times on this list and the main reason is that some very bad things can happen in some situations. You can always use the command line option to exclude that repo. -Michael -- Michael D. Stenner mstenner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ECE Department, the University of Arizona 520-626-1619 1230 E. Speedway Blvd., Tucson, AZ 85721-0104 ECE 524G