Hi, I love yum and could not function without it. However, I have an idea that would improve yum. Please consider the following: I ran yum check-update at 12:04 pm and got the following.. [root@~]# yum check-update Setting up repositories Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: extras failure: repodata/repomd.xml from extras: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try. [root@~]# Something went wrong and yum could not continue. So, I ran it again at 12:09 pm and got the following.. [root@~]# yum check-update Setting up repositories extras 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 livna 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 base 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 updates-released 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 Reading repository metadata in from local files primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 557 kB 00:03 extras : ################################################## 1584/1584 Added 15 new packages, deleted 0 old in 2.57 seconds primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 109 kB 00:01 livna : ################################################## 333/333 Added 3 new packages, deleted 0 old in 0.47 seconds [root@~]# This time it worked, and if it worked the second time, it could have worked the first time if yum didn't simply give up. Although I am not a coder, I am submitting this improvement so that you can make yum better than it already is. Please consider the following improvement: If yum fails to get repo data from the first repo, yum should just skip over that repo and get the data from the other repos I have enabled and then try the skipped repos again. If it worked on the second try, it can work on the first try. There should be an option to tell yum "do not stop trying until you have recieved all data from all repos". I hope that this can be done and I would be willing to help in any way I can. Thank you, Ian MacGregor
