Bug 2219796

Summary: Value of $releasever variable in epel.repo results in 404 error code when hitting metalink for epel in Azure VM
Product: [Fedora] Fedora EPEL Reporter: Devika Vinayarajan <devika.vinayarajan>
Component: epel-releaseAssignee: Carl George 🎩 <carl>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: epel9CC: carl, kevin, mastahnke, smooge, tdawson
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Description Devika Vinayarajan 2023-07-05 12:01:14 UTC 
Description of problem:

The value of releasever is automatically picked up as the OS Version of 9.2 in "/etc/yum/vars" on creating an Azure RHEL 9.2 VM. Due to this, the metalink in the epel.repo file in "/etc/yum.repos.d" points to https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=epel-9.2&arch=x86_64&infra=$infra&content=$contentdir which is invalid and gives a 404 error code.
The only applicable value for substitution of releasever in the metalink is 9.
This issue was reported in a lower version and reported to have an interim fix of hardcoding the releasever variable (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1969500)


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How reproducible: 100%


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create an Azure VM with OS Linux (RHEL 9.2)
2. Confirm value of releasever in "/etc/yum/vars" has been auto populated with 9.2
3. # sudo yum install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-9.noarch.rpm -y


Actual results:

Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 9.2 - x86_64                                                                              82 kB/s | 109 kB     00:01
Errors during downloading metadata for repository 'epel':
  - Status code: 404 for https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=epel-9.2&arch=x86_64&infra=$infra&content=$contentdir (IP: 38.145.60.20)
  - Status code: 404 for https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=epel-9.2&arch=x86_64&infra=$infra&content=$contentdir (IP: 34.221.3.152)
  - Status code: 404 for https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=epel-9.2&arch=x86_64&infra=$infra&content=$contentdir (IP: 38.145.60.21)
Error: Failed to download metadata for repo 'epel': Cannot prepare internal mirrorlist: Status code: 404 for https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=epel-9.2&arch=x86_64&infra=$infra&content=$contentdir (IP: 38.145.60.21)


Expected results:

The value in metalink should be populated with 9 and running "sudo yum install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-9.noarch.rpm -y" should allow the user to install the epel-release package.


Additional info:

Workaround - sed -i 's/$releasever/9/g' /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo
Comment 1 Troy Dawson 2023-07-05 13:22:43 UTC 
I thought we had already made this change ($releasever -> 9) but it looks like we only did it for 8.
Comment 2 Carl George 🎩 2024-11-28 02:13:54 UTC 
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/epel-release/pull-request/33
Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2024-12-03 00:04:34 UTC 
FEDORA-EPEL-2024-51d6bfef87 (epel-release-9-9.el9) has been submitted as an update to Fedora EPEL 9.
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2024-51d6bfef87
Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2024-12-04 02:51:13 UTC 
FEDORA-EPEL-2024-51d6bfef87 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 9 testing repository.

You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2024-51d6bfef87

See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.
Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2024-12-12 00:41:03 UTC 
FEDORA-EPEL-2024-51d6bfef87 (epel-release-9-9.el9) has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 9 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.