[EPEL-devel] problem with epel mirrors?

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On 30 June 2015 at 15:19, Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net> wrote:
>
> Am 30.06.2015 um 23:16 schrieb Bernard Lheureux:
>>
>> On 06/30/2015 11:00 PM, Gary Gatling wrote:
>>
>> I have the same troubles with CentOS  5 and 6 and EPEL 5 and 6 !
>>>
>>> I noticed today I cannot yum install any packages from epel 7.
>>>
>>> I see lots of errors like:
>>>
>>>
>>> http://fedora.westmancom.com/epel/7/x86_64/repodata/6201e922dac4ba1b5b44be2339d61a8b067bdf798dcbae2ded82b14ea6acd644-primary.sqlite.xz:
>>> [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404 - Not Found
>>>
>>> http://mirror.clarkson.edu/epel/7/x86_64/repodata/6201e922dac4ba1b5b44be2339d61a8b067bdf798dcbae2ded82b14ea6acd644-primary.sqlite.xz:
>>> [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404 - Not Found
>>>
>>> Is there a problem with epel 7 and all the mirrors? Or could this be a
>>> local problem.
>>>
>>> This started after I ran
>>>
>>> yum clean all
>
>
> it's a repeating problem with the Fedora infrastructure and by far only hits
> EPEL, somtimes YUM resloves deps, downloads 3 pckages, a 404, pretends it
> tries another mirror and stops
>
> repeating "yum upgrade" will download the next package, stops again, repeat
> it often enough and the updates suceeds
>

OK we have been seeing reports of this problem but never enough data
to pin down what of many problems it could be. Patrick Uiterwijk has
written a script which if people could check and run it will help us
greatly. The code is at https://github.com/puiterwijk/check_metalink
and looks to require the python-request-ftp module which isn't in EPEL
but is in Fedora 21->22 [This is mainly to check ftp hosts.. if you
only care about http.. don't worry]

On EL-6, EL-7 systems:

sudo yum install python-virtualenv
virtualenv venv; source venv/bin/activate; pip install requests requests-ftp
mkdir home
cd home
git clone git at github.com:puiterwijk/check_metalink.git
cd check_metalink

On Fedora-21+ systems:
git clone git at github.com:puiterwijk/check_metalink.git
cd check_metalink


python ./check_metalink -v -v -v --repo=epel-7 --arch=x86_64
--check-master &> master-out.txt
python ./check_metalink -v -v -v --repo=epel-7 --arch=x86_64
--check-mirrors &> mirror-out.txt

The output should help us figure out why we aren't seeing these
problems in some environments but others are seeing it a lot.







-- 
Stephen J Smoogen.