On Wed, 17 Oct 2012 16:04:53 -0700 James P Dehnert Sr <[email protected]> wrote:
> I just installed the peel repo on a RedHat Ent 6.1 system using the > following command… > > su -c 'rpm -Uvh > http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-7.noarch.rpm' > > Now when I query yum I get the following error message... > > Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for > repository: epel. Please verify its path and try again > > The repo file seem good to me… > > [epel] > name=Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 6 - $basearch > #baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/$basearch > mirrorlist=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=epel-6&arch=$basearch > failovermethod=priority > enabled=1 > gpgcheck=1 > gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL-6 > > But now this is breaking a number of package installed in puppet. I > Googled this error, but the consensus seems to be to just disable the > repo, which doesn’t really address the problem. > > Does anyone have a clue as to why this is happening? Do a: URLGRABBER_DEBUG=1 yum check-update and see if that tells you what the problem is. It could be any of: - The date/time on your system is way off, so they metalink is invalid. - You are behind a proxy and can't download the metalink. - Your dns is not working right. etc. kevin
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