can't install debug rpm with yum -

[Sean]

On Sat, 10 Jun 2006 00:37:33 -0400
seth vidal <skvidal at linux.duke.edu> wrote:

> It doesn't fail. I tested 2.6.X and cvs today.
> 
> When yum encounters a broken repomd.xml it marks the mirror as bad and
> goes to the next one.
> 
> If you only have one mirror it exits.

That would be a failure from the perspective of the user.  Why not fall
back to download.fedora.redhat.com if no mirror can be found?
 
[snip]
> watch as the broken repomd.xml gets read, displays some crap from the
> library about the broken format then moves on to the next baseurl for
> that repo.

Is there no way to suppress the (often two screens worth of) crap
from the library?

Sean