Bug 1175566 - Can not use mirrorlist with RHEL $releasever
Summary: Can not use mirrorlist with RHEL $releasever
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: mirrormanager
Version: 21
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Pierre-YvesChibon
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2014-12-18 03:32 UTC by Ian Wienand
Modified: 2015-07-28 12:18 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2015-07-28 12:18:33 UTC
Type: Bug
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Description Ian Wienand 2014-12-18 03:32:38 UTC
I'm trying to install the latest EPEL automatically with the following repo

---
[epel]
name=Setup EPEL
mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=epel-$releasever&arch=$basearch
---

After than I can then "yum install epel-release" to know I'm getting the latest version

The issue is that on RHEL "$releasever" expands to "6Server", which is an invalid path

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$ urlgrabber 'http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=epel-6Server&arch=x86_64'
$ head -2 mirrorlist 
# repo = epel-6Server arch = x86_64 error: invalid repo or arch
# following repositories are available:
---

As far as I can tell, there is no variable for yum that provides just the major version.  I think the solution is to have the mirrorlist recognise 6Server (and 7Server) and just point them at epel-X

Comment 1 Matt Domsch 2015-07-23 04:05:40 UTC
This fails in production today using mirrormanager v2.  There is supposed to be a RepositoryRedirect entry that maps repo=epel-6Server to repo=epel-6.  That may have gotten lost somewhere. Reassigning to pingou.

Comment 2 Pierre-YvesChibon 2015-07-28 12:18:33 UTC
I have added the repository redirect that was indeed missing.

So this should be fixed now :)


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