Bug 1298017 - epel-release rpm has gone missing
Summary: epel-release rpm has gone missing
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification: Red Hat
Component: yum
Version: 6.8
Hardware: All
OS: All
unspecified
medium
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Valentina Mukhamedzhanova
QA Contact: BaseOS QE Security Team
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-01-13 01:40 UTC by Dan Yocum
Modified: 2016-01-13 14:37 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2016-01-13 14:37:12 UTC
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Description Dan Yocum 2016-01-13 01:40:49 UTC 
Description of problem:

The epel-release RPM is missing from the rhel-x86_64-server-optional-6 channel

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

rhel6.7

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.rhn-channel -l 
rhel-x86_64-server-6
rhel-x86_64-server-extras-6
rhel-x86_64-server-optional-6
rhel-x86_64-server-supplementary-6

2. yum install epel-release --noplugins
Setting up Install Process
No package epel-release available.
Error: Nothing to do

3.

Actual results:

not installed

Expected results:

installed, per the guide: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL

Additional info:
Comment 2 Dan Yocum 2016-01-13 14:37:12 UTC 
Oops.  My bad.  I completely misread the wiki on fedoraproject. I read that page to mean that the epel-release package is *in* the optional channel, not that it *needs* the optional channel.

Truth be told, it would be nice if epel release was included in the optional (or extra) channel, but that's a point of debate I don't have the time to take up.

In any case, I'm closing this ticket as ERRNO60 (i.e., error exists 60cm from the screen).  ;-)
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