[plug] yum

[Simon Marko]

Jim Householder wrote:

> Gavin Chester wrote:
>
>>
>>    >-----Original Message-----
>>    >From: plug-bounces at plug.org.au [mailto:plug-bounces at plug.org.au]On
>>    >Behalf Of Jim Householder
>>    >Sent: Thursday, 6 April 2006 19:48
>>    >To: PLUG
>>    >Subject: [plug] yum
>>    >
>>    >
>>    >Hi
>>    >
>>    >I'm having a problem with yum.
>>    >
>>    >I have about 8 repos defined, some with mirrors.
>>    >
>>    >As soon as yum finds one it cannot access, either main or mirror, it
>>    >aborts.
>>
>> I've been away from my PC for several days and just trawling thru the
>> backlog of list mail ...
>>
>> All I can tell you is that this is NOT the way it should be.  If one 
>> mirror
>> fails then it falls back to the next one, and the next until all 
>> options are
>> exhausted.  
>
>
> Thanks.  It does that ok.  The problem is that if all the mirrors for, 
> say atrpms, are exhausted it stops and will not go on and check nrpms 
> or any other repo following atrpms in the list.
>
> Jim
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Have you taken a look at the Yum Project's Bugzilla Database?
I had a problem with yum, which turned out to be a problem with the way 
python uses HTTP proxies. I had to patch my python scripts but yum 
started working well.

Check out https://devel.linux.duke.edu/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=225 and 
possibly other bugs or their mailing list.

As Users, we all want bug-free software - as developers we can't test 
every users' configuration - vicious circle when you get into it :(
::SImonM::