On Wed, 07 Jun 2006 21:52:39 -0400 seth vidal <skvidal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The problem you're poorly diagnosing isn't really in yum. The crux of > the problem is out of sync mirrors being in the mirror list. That's a > problem we're working on now by taking some work that another project > has done to check the status of a mirror to make sure that the metadata > it has matches the metadata that the mirror master has. > > To give you a useful analogy to the situation you're experiencing: This > is like complaining that firefox is a bad browser b/c all of the > websites you're visiting are down. OR complaining that you are riding a > bad bike b/c all the roads are closed. Seth, I hear what you're saying and maybe there is an element of that in my mini rant. However, you didn't address the crappiness of the error message of the example I gave. And while blaming the mirror list for the problem may be technically correct, why does yum not have a fallback for a situation that is bound to happen again? Why is it so brittle and susceptible to such a problem? At least firefox gives you a good error message when it can't reach a site, and it then takes that incorrect URL and turns it into a search that hopefully will find you the correct location. See the difference? yum just gives up too easily and puts the burden back on the user to decipher a POS error message. Another issue, which perhaps you'll blame on rpm, is that whenever a user enables a repo, that config file will not be replaced by rpm. So the next time a URL fix is pushed out in a /etc/yum.repos.d/xx.conf file, user intervention is required because that config will no longer be automatically updated. Is there a way to configure yum without having to change the config files that also hold the repository URLs ? I tried using yum.conf to enable a repo instead, but then you get: "Repository xyz is listed more than once in the configuration" Sean -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
