It strike me that if "yum" gets a 404 HTTP error when trying to get a repo list from a mirror, it oughtn't to spew out masses of gibberish at the user unless it was being deliberately run in some verbose/debugging mode. It ought to just change to another mirror, at that point, with a short sensible explanation to the user watching the output. Likewise for forbidden/denied HTTP errors. e.g. HTTP access error (404), trying another mirror. At the moment it blithely ignores error messages, and attempts to parse whatever's presented along with the error code as if it were the repo XML data file. I imagine that there's some potential for a bigger problem, than just seeing annoying text scroll past, if it pays no attention to error messages from the web server. -- Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
