#11268 NORM 1.75-so: XO-1.75 os6 yum install fails

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#11268: XO-1.75 os6 yum install fails
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           Reporter:  Quozl   |       Owner:  pbrobinson                       
               Type:  defect  |      Status:  new                              
           Priority:  normal  |   Milestone:  1.75-software                    
          Component:  distro  |     Version:  Development build as of this date
         Resolution:          |    Keywords:                                   
        Next_action:  review  |    Verified:  0                                
Deployment_affected:          |   Blockedby:                                   
           Blocking:          |  
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Comment(by Quozl):

 See also #11272.  I can have a go at explaining, but I'm no authority.

  * we use the Fedora distribution and infrastructure, including package
 building, repository construction, and hosting, so anytime they have a
 hiccup in those, we stall, either in our own builds or our own use of yum,
  * we have no private mirror that would let us continue working, and if we
 did, we wouldn't want to deploy that mirror in production because of the
 cost,
  * some of the Fedora hosting services have been unavailable recently, and
 because the cause of the current outage is "security" related, it is
 difficult to get useful information on the expected duration,
  * some contributors and developers (such as I) have mistakenly assumed
 that the problems are build specific, since they are often discovered
 after fs-update, and when the problems have been raised nobody has clearly
 advised that the problems are build independent,
  * the yum command or repo configuration in our builds is delicate and
 sensitive to occasional outages, with no clear advice given by yum to the
 user on how to compensate,
  * there is no GUI provided as there is in Ubuntu, (synaptic),
  * there is no download source manipulation GUI such as is found in
 Ubuntu.

 I don't know how to fix this.

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