Qubes Update tool and Qubes contrib repo fc42

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So, https://contrib.qubes-os.org/yum/r4.2/current/vm/fc42 is obviously non-existent.
When updating qubes from within templates, “404” is letting update process nevertheless, while Qubes Update Tool doesn’t. It is painfully annoying.
I don’t want to set skip_if_unavailable=True when “404” because I want it “False” for any other errors.

Any other idea what to do to avoid manual qubes updating?

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Hmm, why you don’t directly ask @rustybird , he is the creator/maintainer of the only app in contrib.qubes.org, the qubes-split-browser?
He can/must know the reason, why that package is not available for f42.
Btw, it exists in the testing repo Index of /yum/r4.2/current-testing/vm/fc42/.

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Thanks, but in general it’s not the question about repo, but about Qubes Update Tool.

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But why is that a Qubes OS problem?
It is the mechanism from fedora, that the update process fails, if a repo is not available and the skip_if_unavailable parameter is set to false.
The QubesOS update tool does not made more then call “dnf clean all && dnf update” as root user.
If one repo is not available, that has skip_if_unavailable set to false, then no repo will be loaded, even not from them, that are available.
What else should the QubesUpdater do?

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Bump, just in case it’s overlooked.