[CentOS-devel] Link to Red Hat customer portal in yum error message

[Jitse Klomp]

On 05/26/2016 01:43 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> On 05/26/2016 06:31 AM, Jitse Klomp wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I updated my CentOS 6 machine yesterday and it threw this error at me
>> (before I switched to centos-release-scl):
>>
>> http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6/SCL/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno
>> 14] PYCURL ERROR 22 - "The requested URL returned error: 404 Not Found"
>> Trying other mirror.
>> To address this issue please refer to the below knowledge base article
>>
>> https://access.redhat.com/articles/1320623
>>
>> If above article doesn't help to resolve this issue please open a ticket
>> with Red Hat Support.
>>
>> Did you miss this when removing Red Hat branding or is it supposed to
>> say this?
>
> We have not removed that from yum yet because we don't yet have a better
> place to point it too .. and neither the message OR the linked page
> specifically say you are running Red Hat Enterprise Linux, etc.
>
> The linked page is also relevant (ie, it is what you need to do to fix
> the problem).
>
> So, we have left that link in on purpose.

It is relevant but only accessible to Red Hat customers. I think it's a 
bit strange to link to 'closed' documentation from an open project like 
CentOS but that's just a matter of taste, I guess.

> I could be persuaded to change it, but I don't that is specifically
> required for branding reasons.
>
> Regardless .. the Red Hat support part should be removed .. so I will
> look at that and try to find a fix.

Great. Is there a way I can help?

Thanks for all the hard work!

  - Jitse