9:24 a.m.
I will wipe out this VM, and re-install RHEL 9 and see if it happens again. I already know
it isn't security based issues, as none of my systems caught anything (I'm a
Security Architect), and I was able to download the GPG key using WGET, and install it
using RPM --import.
I'm fairly certain the issue was that the GPG key was not getting deployed.
Nicholas Jahn
IT professional
A.S. Network Specialist (www.madisoncollege.edu)
________________________________
From: Stephen Smoogen <ssmoogen(a)redhat.com>
Sent: Monday, September 26, 2022 8:59 AM
To: EPEL Development List <epel-devel(a)lists.fedoraproject.org>
Subject: [EPEL-devel] Re: EPEL RHEL 9 mirror error
On Mon, 26 Sept 2022 at 09:31, Nick Jahn
<nick.jahn@hotmail.com<mailto:nick.jahn@hotmail.com>> wrote:
Tried that, still getting GPG check FAILED. It seems that the security key is not getting
deployed correctly.
I manually went to the EPEL repo path https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/ and found the
EPEL 9 Key, downloaded it and installed the key, and now the connection is working. The
reason I reached out in the first place was to let you know that the deployment was not
working as designed, as I know the EPEL Key is supposed to download and install when you
perform the installation of the REPO (which was not happening). This needs to be fixed or
you need to update the documentation to let others know that they need to download and
install the RPM GPG KEY for EPEL 9 before using the rest of the guide......
OK I am doing a retest of the instructions with a fresh Alma 9 install.
I have installed it with minimal functionality and done a `dnf update` to get it up to the
latest packages.
Then I have rebooted it and done the following commands:
```
[root@localhost ~]# sudo dnf config-manager --set-enabled crb
[root@localhost ~]# dnf install
https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-9.noarch.rpm
AlmaLinux 9 - CRB
3.3 MB/s | 2.5 MB
00:00
Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:01 ago on Mon 26 Sep 2022 09:52:47 AM EDT.
epel-release-latest-9.noarch.rpm
124 kB/s | 18 kB
00:00
Dependencies resolved.
==============================================================================================================================================================================================
Package Architecture
Version Repository
Size
==============================================================================================================================================================================================
Installing:
epel-release noarch
9-4.el9 @commandline
18 k
Transaction Summary
==============================================================================================================================================================================================
Install 1 Package
Total size: 18 k
Installed size: 25 k
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
Running transaction check
Transaction check succeeded.
Running transaction test
Transaction test succeeded.
Running transaction
Preparing :
1/1
Installing : epel-release-9-4.el9.noarch
1/1
Running scriptlet: epel-release-9-4.el9.noarch
1/1
Many EPEL packages require the CodeReady Builder (CRB) repository.
It is recommended that you run /usr/bin/crb enable to enable the CRB repository.
Verifying : epel-release-9-4.el9.noarch
1/1
Installed:
epel-release-9-4.el9.noarch
Complete!
[root@localhost ~]# dnf install screen
Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:21 ago on Mon 26 Sep 2022 09:53:52 AM EDT.
Dependencies resolved.
=========================================================================================================
Package Architecture
Version Repository
Size
=========================================================================================================
Installing:
screen x86_64
4.8.0-6.el9 epel
649 k
Transaction Summary
======================================================================================================
Install 1 Package
Total download size: 649 k
Installed size: 957 k
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
screen-4.8.0-6.el9.x86_64.rpm
1.8 MB/s | 649 kB
00:00
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Total
1.2 MB/s | 649 kB
00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 9 - x86_64
1.6 MB/s | 1.6 kB
00:00
Importing GPG key 0x3228467C:
Userid : "Fedora (epel9)
<epel@fedoraproject.org<mailto:epel@fedoraproject.org>>"
Fingerprint: FF8A D134 4597 106E CE81 3B91 8A38 72BF 3228 467C
From : /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL-9
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Key imported successfully
Running transaction check
Transaction check succeeded.
Running transaction test
Transaction test succeeded.
Running transaction
Preparing :
1/1
Running scriptlet: screen-4.8.0-6.el9.x86_64
1/1
Installing : screen-4.8.0-6.el9.x86_64
1/1
Running scriptlet: screen-4.8.0-6.el9.x86_64
1/1
Verifying : screen-4.8.0-6.el9.x86_64
1/1
Installed:
screen-4.8.0-6.el9.x86_64
Complete!
```
So the instructions as printed work, if everything else works fine. However, it is clear
that something did not work for your system, but I am not sure how to pinpoint what it is
for better documentation. If you can repeat the problem and see what difference in install
from what I tried is, we can better do this.
--
Stephen Smoogen, Red Hat Automotive
Let us be kind to one another, for most of us are fighting a hard battle. -- Ian
MacClaren