Re: YUM error handling
Tim:
> It ought to just change to another mirror, at that point, with
> short sensible explanation to the user watching the output.
> Likewise for forbidden/denied HTTP errors.
>
> e.g. HTTP access error (404), trying another mirror.
>
> At the moment it blithely ignores error messages, and attempts to
> parse whatever's presented along with the error code as if it
> were the repo XML data file.
Mike Klinke:
I'm not sure what you're referring to, perhaps this is an
FC4/FC5
thing?
Yes, sorry, I really should have specified I was using FC4.
On FC1/FC3 the simple error message you refer to is about all
that's
displayed and yum moves on to the next randomly picked server. I've
never noticed anything even remotely annoying on a 404 error as far as
I can recall.
What you'll see is a whole slew of parsing error messages. There's
quite a few examples of them in messages posted on this list. For that
reason, I didn't bother to provide an example, and I don't know when
I'll get another to post a sample, now.
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