[Yum] when mediaid is provided yum crash instead of disabling it

[seth vidal]

On Fri, 2010-07-09 at 15:07 +0300, Muayyad AlSadi wrote:
> > Can you tell me the version of things you're running  and if you're
> > seeing the above from simply running yum from thje cli?
> >
> > -sv
> 
> yes I got that from cli, details below
> 
> latest PK would create that file automatically please see
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/packagekit/plain/docs/media-repo.txt
> <<EOQ
> 
> 2. The daemon starts, and the compiled backend initialization is run. This looks
>    for mounted volumes, and copies any media.repo files from the removable media
>    to /etc/yum.repos.d/packagekit-media.repo, overwriting any existing file.
>    The packagekit-media.repo is appended with an "enabled=1" line to ensure
>    it is used by the yum CLI.
> 
> EOQ
> 
> I know you are against having it supported in CLI
> but it should just disable it
> 
> [root at localhost ~]# rpm -q yum
> yum-3.2.27-4.fc13.noarch
> 
> [root at localhost ~]# yum list '*yumex*'
> Loaded plugins: auto-update-debuginfo, fastestmirror, presto, refresh-packagekit
> Found 24 installed debuginfo package(s)
> Enabling fedora-debuginfo: Fedora 13 - x86_64 - Debug
> Enabling rpmfusion-nonfree-debuginfo: RPM Fusion for Fedora 13 - Nonfree - Debug
> Enabling rpmfusion-free-updates-debuginfo: RPM Fusion for Fedora 13 -
> Free - Updates Debug
> Enabling rpmfusion-free-debuginfo: RPM Fusion for Fedora 13 - Free - Debug
> Enabling updates-debuginfo: Fedora 13 - x86_64 - Updates - Debug
> Enabling rpmfusion-nonfree-updates-debuginfo: RPM Fusion for Fedora 13
> - Nonfree - Updates Debug
> Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
> fedora-debuginfo/metalink                                |  20 kB     00:01
> updates-debuginfo/metalink                               |  16 kB     00:00
>  * fedora: mirror.sov.uk.goscomb.net
>  * fedora-debuginfo: mirror.sov.uk.goscomb.net
>  * rpmfusion-free: mirror.cse.iitk.ac.in
>  * rpmfusion-free-debuginfo: mirror.karneval.cz
>  * rpmfusion-free-updates: mirror.cse.iitk.ac.in
>  * rpmfusion-free-updates-debuginfo: mirror.karneval.cz
>  * rpmfusion-nonfree: mirror.cse.iitk.ac.in
>  * rpmfusion-nonfree-debuginfo: mirror.karneval.cz
>  * rpmfusion-nonfree-updates: mirror.cse.iitk.ac.in
>  * rpmfusion-nonfree-updates-debuginfo: mirror.karneval.cz
>  * updates: mirror.bytemark.co.uk
>  * updates-debuginfo: mirror.karneval.cz
> Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for
> repository: InstallMedia. Please verify its path and try again
> 
> [root at localhost ~]# yum --noplugins list '*yumex*'
> Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for
> repository: InstallMedia. Please verify its path and try again

This just looks like a bug - please file it in fedora/rh bugzilla and
I'll see if I can figure out why it is happening.

thanks
-sv