can't install debug rpm with yum.

[seth vidal]

On Wed, 2006-06-07 at 21:00 -0400, Sean wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Jun 2006 17:30:53 -0400
> "Ryan Skadberg" <skadz1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > I put a comment in front of the mirror list (which has all bad mirrors
> > in it) and just added:
> > 
> > baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/i386/debug/
> > 
> > And it seems to work fine.
> > 
> 
> Sure, but the question remains.. why isn't it delivered to the user in a working order?
> That is, why did you need to make that change yourself?   Why is it that yum needs all
> these little user interventions so often?  Why are the error messages it produces so
> hideous?  Is yum honestly solid enough to make it the foundation of the installer?
> If nobody else is thinking the same thing i'll just shut up and deal with it; perhaps
> i'm the only one fed up with yum.
> 

The problem you're poorly diagnosing isn't really in yum. The crux of
the problem is out of sync mirrors being in the mirror list. That's a
problem we're working on now by taking some work that another project
has done to check the status of a mirror to make sure that the metadata
it has matches the metadata that the mirror master has.

To give you a useful analogy to the situation you're experiencing: This
is like complaining that firefox is a bad browser b/c all of the
websites you're visiting are down. OR complaining that you are riding a
bad bike b/c all the roads are closed.


-sv