Yum repomd.xml error

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On Tue, 10 May 2005, Lamar Owen wrote:

> On Tuesday 10 May 2005 14:46, Dag Wieers wrote:
> > It's nice they help out the Apache project this way, but at what
> > expense ? So I'm wondering what to do next to avoid things like this.
> 
> I for one have switched to www.mirrorservice.org's mirror, which seems to be 
> working OK at this point.
> 
> My complaint isn't as much with the repository as it's with yum itself for 
> blowing chunks and completely failing. 

Indeed. This is inherent to yum. I already complained about this in Yum's 
bugzilla and can only hope this will be fixed in a future release.


> FWIW, when I update with synaptic I get a warning about the one repo being 
> down but I get an update from the others just fine and can go ahead and 
> upgrade from the loaded repos and wait until the ailing repo has things 
> fixed.  I wonder if yum can be configured to do similar; I for one track 
> kde-redhat, the various centos.org mirrored repos as well as apt.sw.be; there 
> have been times that either the kde-redhat main repo or apt.sw.be have been 
> down for several hours, during which a yum-driven autoupdate dies, but an apt 
> one can cope.
> 
> More than likely yum can be taught to do such, I just haven't yet done it.

Let me know if you find it. The only way to work-around is by disabling it 
and enable it whenever you require it. Which is the complete wrong 
approach being advertized as the right way to do it.

--   dag wieers,  dag@xxxxxxxxxx,  http://dag.wieers.com/   --
[all I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power]

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