On Thu, Apr 25, 2019 at 1:53 PM Samuel Sieb samuel@sieb.net wrote:
On 4/25/19 10:04 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
On Thu, Apr 25, 2019 at 6:39 AM Vít Ondruch vondruch@redhat.com wrote:
Dne 24. 04. 19 v 23:04 Ben Cotton napsal(a):
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Set_skip_if_unavailable_default_to_fa...
== Summary == Dnf team wants to change a default setting for the repo option `skip_if_unavailable` to `FALSE`.
The default behavior could be overwritten by a configuration of each repository or in dnf by configuration in /etc/dnf/dnf.conf.
Or overridden for specific repositories as needed in mock, koji, or the individual .repo files. I intensely dislike the exclussion in fedora.repo: the only reason I can see for it is to enable the Media repository with no other work and have things kind-of, sort-of work.
The behavior is not new, because it was used already by YUM, and the behavior is really essential because all Fedora ropos are already shipped with `skip_if_unavailable=FALSE`.
Which I think was a horrible, horrible idea, for reasons mentioned above.
It sounds to me like you are misunderstanding the setting. When it is set to false, you can't do updates when a repository is missing. It won't skip them. You can only do an update if all repositories are available and can be checked.
Gahhh. I read the logic backwards. I take back my objection, "False" is the much safer option, in general, and should be overruled on a case by case basis. The difficulty is that people used to the convention are going to wind up confused. Perhaps it should be explicitly listed in the [main] stanza ?