Can't download EPEL RPMs using /bin/rpm after the move from download.fedora.redhat.com to download.fedoraproject.org

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 12:45:58 -0800
Aleksey Tsalolikhin <atsaloli.tech at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi.
> 
> The EPEL repo is very helpful, thanks for it!
> 
>  I can no longer download EPEL RPMs using /bin/rpm after the move from
> download.fedora.redhat.com to download.fedoraproject.org.
> 
> # rpm -ihv
> http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/x86_64/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm
> Retrieving
> http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/x86_64/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm
> error: skipping
> http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/x86_64/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm
> - transfer failed - Unknown or unexpected error
> warning: u 0x1f5ebe20 ctrl 0x2010e500 nrefs != 0
> (download.fedoraproject.org http)

This is because download.fedoraproject.org is a redirect to a mirror. 
rpm (in rhel5) doesn't follow them. 

> Could you please fix this?

You can wget the file and install it with yum/rpm locally, or you could
use 'dl.fedoraproject.org' which is a direct hostname to the master
mirrors. 

> Thanks and congratulations for moving out from redhat.com and to your
> own domain.

The download.fedora.redhat.com host has been pointing to fedora mirrors
for about 2 years now. We only just removed it to make sure people were
no longer using it. ;) 

kevin


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