release and updates repos on rawhide

[Adrian Reber]

On Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at 05:32:56PM +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> 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.
[...]
>
> 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?

I have created repository redirects in mirrormanager. If now someone
requests the  mirrorlist for the 9.93 version he/she gets the rawhide
repository list.

(and I really hope that I did not break anything else)

		Adrian