[Yum-devel] yum does not retry on 503 errors

[Mike McLean]

On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 3:26 PM, Mike McLean <mikem.rtp at gmail.com> wrote:
> Perhaps the best way (for yum at least) is to not perform the
> configured retries at the grabber level, but at the mirrorgroup level.
> That is, allow each mirror to fail $retries times before it is removed
> from the list, but still advance to the next mirror on each failure.

The attached patch for yum implements this notion. No urlgrabber
changes required. Feedback appreciated :)