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) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 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/$releasever/9/g' /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo
I thought we had already made this change ($releasever -> 9) but it looks like we only did it for 8.
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/epel-release/pull-request/33
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
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.
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.