[CentOS] EPEL repository: Failure to download metadata

Mon Jun 8 01:11:30 UTC 2020
Jay Hart <jhart at kevla.org>

Believe I have fixed the repo failure issue.  'Yum repolist' works about half the time, the other
50% still seems to be connection related.  Still investigating.

Jay

> Trying to install certbot, for Lets Encrypt certificate installation. How do I fix the below repo
> issue?  I have not been successful tracking down this issue using google.
>
> [root at dream postfix]# yum install
> https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm
> CentOS-8 - AppStream                                                                       0.0
> B/s |   0  B     00:10
> Failed to download metadata for repo 'AppStream'
> Error: Failed to download metadata for repo 'AppStream'
> [root at dream postfix]# ^C
> [root at dream postfix]# ls /etc/yum.repos.d/
> CentOS-AppStream.repo   CentOS-CR.repo         CentOS-Extras.repo     CentOS-Media.repo
> CentOS-Vault.repo
> CentOS-Base.repo        CentOS-Debuginfo.repo  CentOS-fasttrack.repo  CentOS-PowerTools.repo
> CentOS-centosplus.repo  CentOS-Devel.repo      CentOS-HA.repo         CentOS-Sources.repo
> [root at dream postfix]# dnf repolist
> CentOS-8 - AppStream                                                                       0.0
> B/s |   0  B     00:25
> Failed to download metadata for repo 'AppStream'
> Error: Failed to download metadata for repo 'AppStream'
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jay
>
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