anaconda fails if yum repo changes during installation

Solution Unverified - Updated -

Issue

  • Anaconda fails if a yum repo is updated with new packages and metadata while a system is installing from that repo.
    For example, if a kickstart file contains
repo --name=rhel6.1 --baseurl=http://www.example.com/rhel6.1/
repo --name=custom --baseurl=http://www.example.com/custom/
%packages
@Base
custom-pkg1
custom-pkg2
custom-pkg3
  • And, while a system is installing, the admin adds or updates a new package to the custom repo and runs createrepo, Anaconda on that system will fail with:
NoMoreMirrorsRepoError: failure: repodata/filelists.sqlite.bz2 from custom: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • kickstart file that includes a repo which is frequently updated

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