[Yum-devel] [PATCH] complete CRACK -- allow repos to be explicitly set to be skipped if for any reason they cannot be located.

[Seth Vidal]

I know I know - I said I would never do this but I gave up on it given how
horribly broken a number of commonly enabled repos are.
---
 yum/config.py |    1 +
 yum/repos.py  |   10 ++++++++--
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/yum/config.py b/yum/config.py
index 7e2d781..b43ce7c 100644
--- a/yum/config.py
+++ b/yum/config.py
@@ -790,6 +790,7 @@ class RepoConf(BaseConfig):
     sslclientcert = Inherit(YumConf.sslclientcert)
     sslclientkey = Inherit(YumConf.sslclientkey)
 
+    skip_if_unavailable = BoolOption(False)
     
 class VersionGroupConf(BaseConfig):
     pkglist = ListOption()
diff --git a/yum/repos.py b/yum/repos.py
index 246c33c..e0c0452 100644
--- a/yum/repos.py
+++ b/yum/repos.py
@@ -274,8 +274,14 @@ class RepoStorage:
          
         for repo in myrepos:
             sack = repo.getPackageSack()
-            sack.populate(repo, mdtype, callback, cacheonly)
-            self.pkgSack.addSack(repo.id, sack)
+            try:
+                sack.populate(repo, mdtype, callback, cacheonly)
+            except Errors.RepoError, e:
+                if not repo.skip_if_unavailable:
+                    
+                    raise
+            else:
+                self.pkgSack.addSack(repo.id, sack)
 
 
 class Repository:
-- 
1.6.5.2