[CentOS] EPEL not working ... is it just me?

Wed Jan 11 15:33:49 UTC 2012
Alan McKay <alan.mckay at gmail.com>

>
> 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.



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