[CentOS-virt] centos-qemu-ev repository not work for x86_64 arch on CentOS 7.5

Tue May 15 10:38:07 UTC 2018
Gena Makhomed <gmm at csdoc.com>

Hello, Sandro!

On 15.05.2018 13:24, Gena Makhomed wrote:

> failure: repodata/repomd.xml from centos-qemu-ev: [Errno 256] No more 
> mirrors to try.
> http://mirror.centos.org/altarch/7/virt/x86_64/kvm-common/repodata/repomd.xml: 
> [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404 - Not Found

I found workaround:

# diff -u CentOS-QEMU-EV.repo.old CentOS-QEMU-EV.repo
--- CentOS-QEMU-EV.repo.old     2018-05-15 13:30:27.500156416 +0300
+++ CentOS-QEMU-EV.repo 2018-05-15 13:30:38.980208715 +0300
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@

  [centos-qemu-ev]
  name=CentOS-$releasever - QEMU EV
-baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/$contentdir/$releasever/virt/$basearch/kvm-common/
+baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/virt/$basearch/kvm-common/
  gpgcheck=1
  enabled=1
  gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-SIG-Virtualization

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now all works fine.

But as I understand, this is bug and it should be fixed.

Something wrong with $contentdir variable,
it points to altarch for x86_64 $basearch.

-- 
Best regards,
  Gena