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I am using a set of local yum repositories and trying to install a set of packages from those repos. I noticed that when one of the packages on the command line does not exist, Yum just prints out that it was not found and goes along its merry way.

Can I make Yum quit when this happens? Is there some other Yum utility that I can use to give it my repos and my packages and tell me if there is a problem?

yum --disablerepo=* --enablerepo=myrepo --nogpgcheck 
 --installroot=/var/some/place/test install 
 abasdfasfeafseasfeasef bash coreutils utils-linux

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No package **abasdfasfeafseasfeasef** available.
No package **utils-linux** available.

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I am calling Yum from another script and don't appear to have a way to tell if the packages that I installed are really installed.

Try using dnf instead of yum, it will fail if a package isn't available the way yum used to. On CentOS you can install it via:

yum -y install epel-release && 
yum -y install dnf

Then on a missing package you'll get an error:

dnf -y install foobar
Error: no package matched: foobar

I don't know about yum, but you can ask whether a package is installed using rpm -q my_package .... It will exit with failure status if any of the packages are missing.

$ rpm -q abasdfasfeafseasfeasef bash coreutils utils-linux
package abasdfasfeafseasfeasef is not installed
bash-4.1.2-9.el6_2.x86_64
coreutils-8.4-19.el6.x86_64
package utils-linux is not installed
$ echo $?
1
$ rpm -q bash
bash-4.1.2-9.el6_2.x86_64
$ echo $?
0

yum --setopt=skip_missing_names_on_install=False <commands-here>