Yum install does not throw error on missing package
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Barak Korren July 4, 2019 at 12:12 PM
Reopening ticket - issue still relevant.
Former user April 10, 2018 at 12:56 PMEdited
Thinking about this, we've solved a similar issue in https://gerrit.ovirt.org/c/89948
A simple solution could be something like going through the packages in .packages and verify that they are installed. Should be something like:
for package in "${packages[@]}"; do rpm -q --whatprovides $package || fail; doneAfter this line, we can run the user's script.
The bug is actually in yum. If you try to install multiple packages and some doesn't exist in the repo, it doesn't fail.
Barak Korren October 1, 2017 at 10:38 AM
@Eyal Edri Nothing had been done to fix this. So this is certainly still happening. And will continue to happen unless we change the way mock_runner installs packages or stop using mock, both of which are not likely to happen soon.
Eyal Edri October 1, 2017 at 8:54 AM
@Former user can you verify if this is still happening?
Former user July 4, 2017 at 8:05 AM
You'll not see anything in the jobs. You can reproduce this any time you want. As Barak mentioned, just add a package to the .packages file and omit the repository it should come from from the .repos file. Run mock_runner.sh with -s flag and wait for the prompt. No error will be written to stdout about installation failure. Execute 'rpm -q $package' and you'll see that it hadn't been installed.
When running el7 mock on fc24 (not necessary the issue) and one of the required packages is missing because a repository in .repos hadn't been added, yum will not fail and the package will not be installed