On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 3:31 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 2011-09-07 at 16:28 +0200, Jos Vos wrote: >> On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 10:22:48AM -0400, seth vidal wrote: >> >> > Broken how? If the mirror is not functional yum should switch to the >> > next mirror in your mirrorlist from mirrormanager. >> >> Well, I have had broken (kickstart) installs more than once, because >> packages couldn't be found etc. I had to solve this by specifying a >> well-known mirror as base url. >> >> If a mirror is accessible, but has a broken repository, you're lost. > > Sounds like anaconda could do with cribbing yum's code for falling back > to alternate mirrors when it can't find a file on the first mirror it > tries. I'm pretty sure anaconda already uses yum for this. IIRC, giving a repo to anaconda via kickstart is like specifying baseurl to yum, which also doesn't fall back. You need mirrorlist for that functionality. josh -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
