https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=441057 User dave.plater@yahoo.co.uk added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=441057#c1 --- Comment #1 from Dave Plater 2008-11-03 07:23:08 MDT --- Also had a 403 error which cleared on retry. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=441057 Dave Plater changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Summary|Libzypp should automatically retry on http 404 |Libzypp should automatically retry on http 404 |file not found |file not found and similar errors -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=441057 User dave.plater@yahoo.co.uk added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=441057#c4 --- Comment #4 from Dave Plater 2008-11-03 10:38:36 MST --- see bug 425035 for my reason for opening this new bug. I'm certainly not suggesting libzypp should go into an endless loop but in accordance with the failover feature it should retry a reasonable amount of times until a mirror with the missing file is found. During the 11.0 alpha stage libzypp was retrying the same mirror on retry, now it gets a fresh mirror each time but sometimes the mirror is in the process of syncing or for some other reason the requested package is not found, in that case an unsupervised update is not possible. I had several 404 errors at the beginning of todays update and on one of them build-2008.10.21-2.2.noarch.rpm there were three mirrors without the package and towards the end of the update there were a few more 404s and a 403. I understand, from reading about it that failover needs libzypp to retry to work properly, please correct me if I'm wrong. I am also lead to believe from bug 42035 that only retry on connection time out is being implemented so far. I didn't do a large update only a couple of hours but if I had started it before I went to bed for instance, I would still have had a couple of hours to go in the morning. build-2008.10.21-2.2.noarch.rpm was the package missing from three mirrors. You can never be certain that all the mirrors will have all of the packages all of the time. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=441057 User jkupec@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=441057#c6 Ján Kupec changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |jkupec@novell.com --- Comment #6 from Ján Kupec 2008-11-04 02:11:48 MST --- (In reply to comment #3 from Duncan Mac-Vicar)

So libzypp should loop until the package does not give 404, therefore an user sitting in front on YaST will not be able to do anything.

heh :O) I believe Peter suggested to open this bug so that he can figure out the redirections to non-existing files, not to implement retries on 404. Peter? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.