epel is enabled but not being used

[Marc Fromm]

I added the EPEL repository as instructed.
A yum repolist displays:
epel                 Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 5 -   enabled
rhel-i386-server-5   None                                      enabled
rhel-i386-server-vt- None                                      enabled
rhn-tools-rhel-i386- None                                      enabled

I performed "yum check-update libmcrypt" command but it appears that epel was not included in the search
Loading "rhnplugin" plugin
Loading "security" plugin
rhel-i386-server-vt-5     100% |=========================| 1.4 kB    00:00
rhel-i386-server-5        100% |=========================| 1.4 kB    00:00
rhn-tools-rhel-i386-serve 100% |=========================| 1.2 kB    00:00
Skipping security plugin, no data

What do I need to do to have yum use the epel repository? Is there a way to tell yum to only search epel for a specific package?

thanks

Marc

[Gianluca Sforna]

2008/10/16 Marc Fromm :
> What do I need to do to have yum use the epel repository? Is there a way to
> tell yum to only search epel for a specific package?

yum --disablerepo=* --enablerepo=epel search mcrypt

[Marc Fromm]

Is epel down? I ran the following and received the message below:

yum --disablerepo=* --enablerepo=epel update php-mcrypt
Loading "rhnplugin" plugin
Loading "security" plugin
There was an error communicating with RHN.
RHN channel support will be disabled.
Error communicating with server. The message was:
Service Temporarily Unavailable
Skipping security plugin, no data

-----Original Message-----
From: [e-mail] [mailto:[e-mail]] On Behalf Of Gianluca Sforna
Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2008 9:34 AM
To: EPEL development disccusion
Subject: Re: epel is enabled but not being used

2008/10/16 Marc Fromm :
> What do I need to do to have yum use the epel repository? Is there a way to
> tell yum to only search epel for a specific package?

yum --disablerepo=* --enablerepo=epel search mcrypt

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[Stephen John Smoogen]

On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 11:04 AM, Marc Fromm  wrote:
> Is epel down? I ran the following and received the message below:
>
> yum --disablerepo=* --enablerepo=epel update php-mcrypt
> Loading "rhnplugin" plugin
> Loading "security" plugin
> There was an error communicating with RHN.
> RHN channel support will be disabled.
> Error communicating with server. The message was:
> Service Temporarily Unavailable
> Skipping security plugin, no data

No thats your RHN thats reporting that. As far as I can tell, RHN (or
your satellite) is shutting down communication.