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

[Johnny Hughes]

On 05/26/2016 07:42 AM, Jitse Klomp wrote:
> 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!

I created this:

https://wiki.centos.org/yum-404-error

I will look to create a yum patch .. then we can decide if it should out
before the next update or wait.


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