On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 1:18 PM, Kevin Fenzi kevin@scrye.com wrote:
On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 12:45:58 -0800 Aleksey Tsalolikhin atsaloli.tech@gmail.com wrote:
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.... Retrieving http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/x86_64/epel-release-5-4.noarch.... error: skipping http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/x86_64/epel-release-5-4.noarch....
- 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.
OK. Thank you.
I was following the procedure documented on the EPEL FAQ. I'd like to update this documentation on http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/FAQ#How_can_I_install_the_packages_from_t...
with the above workaround for RHEL 5. How do I request edit privs on the Wiki, please? I don't see a link to register for a Wiki account.
Yours very truly, Aleksey