[Yum] Major bug in yum 2.4.1

[Joshua Jensen]

Any ETA on a version of yum 2.4 that fixes the current broken version?  
What else are you waiting on for 2.4.2 ?

Joshua


On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 09:47:54PM -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 18:07 -0500, Joshua Jensen wrote:
> > I and my team have found what we consider to be a major bug in yum 
> > 2.4.1.  Essentially all you have to do to trigger it is a "yum clean 
> > metadata", then something like install or even just check-update:
> > 
> > $ sudo yum check-update
> > Setting up repositories
> > (works fine)
> > 
> > $ sudo yum clean metadata
> > Cleaning up xml metadata
> > 14 metadata files removed
> > 
> > $ sudo yum -d 10 check-update
> > Yum Version: 2.4.1
> > COMMAND: yum -d 10
> > Installroot: /
> > Setting up repositories
> > Baseurl(s) for repo: ['http://server/yum/5.00/emergency-install/i386']
> > Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: emergency-install
> > Cannot find repomd.xml file for emergency-install
> > Error: Cannot find repomd.xml file for emergency-install
> > 
> 
> yes - it's a known, reported and fixed-in-cvs bug.
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=174715
> 
> see the attached patch.
> 
> 
> but for a more sensible fix for your environment just add this to the
> emergency repo config:
> metadata_cache=0
> 
> 
> thanks,
> -sv
> 


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