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Description of problem: Installing the epel-release per the instructions does not work: rpm -Uvh http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. rpm -Uvh http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm 2. 3. Actual results: # rpm -Uvh http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm Retrieving http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm error: skipping http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm - transfer failed - Unknown or unexpected error warning: u 0x96ae728 ctrl 0x96b00e0 nrefs != 0 (download.fedoraproject.org http) Expected results: epel-release rpm to install Additional info: This broke recently, tested on rhel5.7 and rhel5.8 that just came out and they both fail. If I use one of the mirrors it works: # rpm -Uvh http://mirror.umd.edu/fedora/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm Retrieving http://mirror.umd.edu/fedora/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm warning: /var/tmp/rpm-xfer.DHABkI: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 217521f6 Preparing... ########################################### [100%] 1:epel-release ########################################### [100%] Maybe something in the mirror redirecting causing the issue? Is working on Red Hat 6.2
I'd guess that rpm from el5 doesn't support the redirection too. If we updated the instructions to use http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm, we'd be alright (according to a quick test on a centos 5 box). I'm not sure if that's desirable or not, so I didn't just update the wiki.
We download the epel-release rpm as part of our automatic install process and this broke, was working fine. I will watch to see what URL is recommended. Thanks all.
I'm not sure what the best fix here is. I can't fix RPM to follow redirects. Are people getting the link from the fedoraproject wiki? We can update that.
We have been using the http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm URL for rhel5, the rhel6 URL works. Was getting the links under: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL#How_can_I_use_these_extra_packages.3F
(In reply to John Sopko from comment #4) > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL#How_can_I_use_these_extra_packages.3F I don't quite understand: the links there are to repoview pages...
So maybe can't fix?
Or better to report the bug against RHEL5 rpm, specially if it is a regression.
It has been sometime since I looked at. I beleive the links on the web page used to point to the URL instead of the repoview. The url we used used to have problems resolving a mirror but now works. I am closing. http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm