Re: can't install debug rpm with yum.

["Ian Burrell" <ianburrell gmail com>]

On 6/8/06, seth vidal <skvidal linux duke edu> wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 12:37 -0700, Ian Burrell wrote:
> >
> > There is a bug in yum in that it is not handling the 404 error and
> > tries to parse the HTML error page.  Yum should notice the not found
> > error and go to the next mirror without spewing parse errors.  Or
> > maybe it should have special logic to detect HTML files and abort the
> > parse early.
>
> It does that fine, provided the 404 IS a 404 and not just a webpage
> SAYING 404.
>
> In the case of download.fedora.redhat.com for quite some time the server
> issued a 200 (OK) and returned a page that SAID 404 in the text.

It looks like it redirects with a 302 to
http://fedora.redhat.com/404.html.  That is just plain wrong and
should be fixed.

Maybe yum should have some logic to detect HTML error pages and abort
them early.

- Ian