[CentOS] Problems with the epel GPG key

[m.roth at 5-cent.us]

Tony Schreiner wrote:
>
> On Sep 9, 2011, at 6:46 AM, Karanbir Singh wrote:
>
>> On 09/08/2011 06:56 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
>>> I just went to install fail2ban, and it kept failing, complaining
>>> about the EPEL GPG key. It was installed... and yum worked, once I did
>>> ln -s /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL-6 /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-
>>> KEY-EPEL
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> to the original:
>
> what version of epel-release is installed?
>
> epel-release-5-4 contains  /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL
>
> epel-release-6-5 contains /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL-6

The latter is what's installed. yum on 6 WAS LOOKING FOR RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL.
As I said, it failed because it said it was looking for that, and was
*not* looking for /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL-6.

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