Re: Broken EPEL mirror?

[Adrian Reber]

On Tue, Dec 05, 2017 at 02:23:48PM -0000, Anders Rein wrote:
>  We are using mock to build RPMs for CentOS 7. The mock configuration
> for CentOS 7 is set to use this mirror list:
> http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=epel-7&arch=x86_64. From this mirror
> list http://ftp.uninett.no/linux/epel/7/x86_64/ seems to be the preferred mirror and is
> the one which is always chosen. This mirror seems to be broken however. There is partial
> repository metadata and no RPMs. This is very annoying because it also breaks the other
> mirrors since the metadata is available and causes Yum to store incorrect relative path to
> the RPMs in the other mirrors. Can this mirror be removed from the mirror list until it is
> fixed? Because right now all our CentOS 7 builds are failing because of it. 
Thanks for the report. Something looks strange indeed with the mirror. I
disabled it for now (admin_active) and put the mirror admins on CC.
Hopefully they can fix it easily.

		Adrian