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

[seth vidal]

On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 18:06 -0400, James Bowes wrote:
> 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.
> 
> So I like this approach, but it does break API in that anyone who
> accesses repoXML now has to worry about catching a RepoError. Probably
> not a big deal, since if you can't get the repoXML you're pretty much
> done for anyways.
> 

Well, we broke that a little while ago, not with this patch.

I just noticed it - before this patch applies as root run:
yum clean all

then as a user run:

yum list available

watch as the traceback ensues. I didn't notice it before but I'll get it
cleaned up tonight.

-sv