State of EPEL

[Michael Schwendt]

On 03/07/07, Rainer Traut <tr.ml at gmx.de> wrote:
> Rex Dieter schrieb:
> > Rainer Traut wrote:
> >
> >
> >> what's the state of EPEL?
> >
> > quasi unofficial. :)
> >
> >> Is it already open?
> >
> > yes.
> >
> >> I am asking because for example the epel-release.rpm seems not to work
> >
> > worksforme.
> >
>
> hmmm, not for me.
> I installed the EL4 rpm on x86_64.
>
> Yum tries to open
> http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=epel-4ESarch=x86_64

You did modify the default epel.repo file, didn't you?

The  epel-release-4-6.noarch.rpm  package has "repo=epel-4" hardcoded
and not the URL you quote. Please check your epel.repo file.