release and updates repos on rawhide

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

Hi all!

I regularly see reports that RPM Fusion or Livna repositories are not 
working; the error reports contain output like this (obviously taken 
from a livna report; but I've seen similar reports for RPM Fusion already):

> http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/9.93/i386/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error
> 404: Not Found
> Trying other mirror.
> http://livna.cat.pdx.edu/fedora/9.93/i386/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP
> Error 404: Not Found
> Trying other mirror.
> http://wftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/livna/fedora/9.93/i386/repodata/repomd.xml:
> [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found
> Trying other mirror.
> http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/rpm.livna.org/fedora/9.93/i386/repodata/repomd.xml:
> [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found
> Trying other mirror.
> http://mirror.atrpms.net/livna/fedora/9.93/i386/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14]
> HTTP Error 404: Not Found
> Trying other mirror.
> ftp://mirrors.tummy.com/pub/rpm.livna.org/fedora/9.93/i386/repodata/repomd.xml:
> [Errno 4] IOError: [Errno ftp error] 550 Failed to change directory.

What's wrong here? Well, the answer is simple: The user is running 
rawhide (relver is 9.93 there right now), but he has those the repos 
enabled that you should use when you are running a stable Fedora release 
(e.g. rpmfusion-{non,}free{-updates}) instead of RPM Fusion's rawhide 
repos.

IOW: the user configured something wrongly, but he thinks it's our 
fault(¹).

That afaics happens so often that I started to wonder: Is there anything 
we can do to prevent the problem at all? Or a way to make it easier for 
users to do the right thing?

Putting a symlink in place that points to the development repos might 
circumvent the problem (but maybe yum gets confused if it sees the exact 
same repodata twice; and worse: I fear that mirrormanager will get 
confused/needs changes as well). Does anyone have a better idea to 
prevent that users don't run into this trouble?

Cu
knurd

(¹) Note, I tried to explain that (and some other important things) a 
bit in the section "What do I need to pay attention to when configuring 
the repositories" that I added to http://rpmfusion.org/FAQ earlier 
today. I did a lot of other changes on that page as well; please check 
if everything makes sense and of course feel free to improve it