> > You mean in the terminal on solexa-db you just issued the yum install > in, you can issue as the next command > wget http://fedora.mirror.nexicom.net/epel/5/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml > and it gets the xml file? Yup, exactly > As a quick temporary fix/test I would comment mirrorlist and uncomment > baseurl in epel.repo and see if the yum command worked. > Yup, tried that > BTW it seems solexa-db may be a RH machine instead of a CentOS machine. > see the rhnplugin get loaded? Could that be a difference between the > working and non working machines (granted I have not seen any problems > with RH machines and epel)? > Yes it is RHEL. I have a mixture of RHEL, CentOS and Scientific and tend to treat them all the same - so sorry that it is technically OT for this list. But you guys (and gals) are just too good :-) > I think it might be good to take this question over to epel-devel (AFAIK > the appropriate list) and see if they can help figure out why you are > having trouble with THEIR infrastructure. > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/epel-devel-list > > > I'll do that - thanks. -- “Don't eat anything you've ever seen advertised on TV” - Michael Pollan, author of "In Defense of Food"