[CentOS] Yum issues with EPEL

[Peter]

On 06/20/2015 01:17 PM, david wrote:
> After years of working just-fine, I have an automated script that
> manages yum for me at initial install time.  Sometime within the last 48
> hours, I get the error message
> 
> http://mirror.nexcess.net/epel/6/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno -1]
> repomd.xml does not match metalink for epel

EPEL is having network problems right now.  A workaround is to comment
out mirrorlist in /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo and add a baseurl line
pointing to a known good mirror.


Peter