[Yum-devel] [PATCH] RFC: Lazily get repo info

[seth vidal]

On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 17:58 -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> There are currently a few problems with enabling/disabling repos with
> the move to the RepoStorage object being a property.  The biggest one is
> if you have a repo with a buggy mirror list and do
>   yum --disablerepo=broken-repo [...]
> then we still try to fetch the mirror list and things blow up.  The
> attached changes things so that the repo is a little bit more lazily set
> up and fixes that problem.  It doesn't look like this will cause any
> problems for any API users either, but wanted to get more eyes on it
> before committing.

this looks like the right thing to do. It keeps yum from grabbing the
repomd.xml before it is really necessary so it won't screw up systems
where that url is inaccessible.

+1
-sv