Would it be possible for somebody to remove it from the Fedora mirror list until it is fixed then?
(Sorry for the incorrect quoting/top-posting of this e-mail; I'm forced to use Outlook/Exchange for my work email). Cheers, David On 27/10/2011 16:45, "Emyr James" <[email protected]> wrote: On 27/10/11 16:33, Bell D. wrote: > Hello, > > Nearly all of our RHEL4/5/6 desktops and workstations at the University >of Southampton use the EPEL repository (via the epel-release rpm). For >the past few days the mirrorservice.org mirror appear to be broken, >generating errors like these on RHEL: > I noticed this too. I logged a bug report on their site but have heard nothing from them. > [root@uos-5416 cache]# yum clean all > Loaded plugins: rhnplugin, security > Cleaning up Everything > [root@uos-5416 cache]# yum check-update > Loaded plugins: rhnplugin, security > epel > > | 3.7 kB 00:00 > >http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/x >86_64/repodata/c33521c50de98dfe6d4031fd81f997e7bdcfc1c2-primary.sqlite.bz2 >: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found > Trying other mirror. > >http://mirrors.coreix.net/fedora-epel/5/x86_64/repodata/c33521c50de98dfe6d >4031fd81f997e7bdcfc1c2-primary.sqlite.bz2: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not >Found > Trying other mirror. > >http://mirror.bytemark.co.uk/fedora/epel/5/x86_64/repodata/c33521c50de98df >e6d4031fd81f997e7bdcfc1c2-primary.sqlite.bz2: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: >Not Found > Trying other mirror. > >http://mirror01.th.ifl.net/epel/5/x86_64/repodata/c33521c50de98dfe6d4031fd >81f997e7bdcfc1c2-primary.sqlite.bz2: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found > Trying other mirror. > >http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/x >86_64/repodata/c33521c50de98dfe6d4031fd81f997e7bdcfc1c2-primary.sqlite.bz2 >: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found > Trying other mirror. > >http://mirrors.coreix.net/fedora-epel/5/x86_64/repodata/c33521c50de98dfe6d >4031fd81f997e7bdcfc1c2-primary.sqlite.bz2: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not >Found > Trying other mirror. > >http://mirror.bytemark.co.uk/fedora/epel/5/x86_64/repodata/c33521c50de98df >e6d4031fd81f997e7bdcfc1c2-primary.sqlite.bz2: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: >Not Found > Trying other mirror. > >http://mirror01.th.ifl.net/epel/5/x86_64/repodata/c33521c50de98dfe6d4031fd >81f997e7bdcfc1c2-primary.sqlite.bz2: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found > Trying other mirror. > Error: failure: >repodata/c33521c50de98dfe6d4031fd81f997e7bdcfc1c2-primary.sqlite.bz2 from >epel: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try. > > The yum configuration (as set by epel-release rpm) uses >mirrors.fedoraproject.org to generate mirrors to use, which right now are: > > >http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/x >86_64/ > http://mirror01.th.ifl.net/epel/5/x86_64/ > http://mirror.bytemark.co.uk/fedora/epel/5/x86_64/ > http://mirrors.coreix.net/fedora-epel/5/x86_64/ > > You can view this list anywhere in the world like so: >http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=epel-5&arch=x86_64&countr >y=gb > > The bottom four mirrors all seem to be correct, but the first mirror >(mirrorservice.org) is broken, its repomd.xml file refers to files which >are not on the mirror (or in fact on any of the mirrors!). > > Can somebody either remove the mirrorservice.org mirror ASAP from the >generator on mirrors.fedoraproject.org system, or fix the mirror. The one >broken mirror appears to in effect break EPEL altogether in the UK >because as soon as yum caches the repomd.xml file from the first mirror >(mirroservice.org) it then continues to look for the invalid/non-existent >SQLite file which doesn't exist on all of the other mirrors - because >it's using the repomd.xml file from the first mirror. Right now that >means all our server and desktop builds are broken and our customers are >reporting that their desktops tell them that the system is not receiving >updates. > > I've cc'ed in [email protected] onto this e-mail since it is their >mirror which is currently giving out incorrect info. > > Cheers, > > David Bell > Enterprise Systems Team > University of Southampton > > _______________________________________________ > epel-devel-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/epel-devel-list > _______________________________________________ epel-devel-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/epel-devel-list _______________________________________________ epel-devel-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/epel-devel-list
