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Bug 1451212 - epel.repo: mirrorlist instead of metalink
Summary: epel.repo: mirrorlist instead of metalink
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora EPEL
Classification: Fedora
Component: epel-release
Version: epel7
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
high
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Michael Stahnke
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-05-16 06:54 UTC by Eva Mrakova
Modified: 2017-09-15 18:43 UTC (History)
10 users (show)

Fixed In Version: epel-release-7-10
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Last Closed: 2017-07-11 20:51:36 UTC
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Red Hat Bugzilla 1464843 0 unspecified CLOSED livemedia-creator: Cannot create live media using repos with metalinks 2022-05-16 11:32:56 UTC

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Description Eva Mrakova 2017-05-16 06:54:18 UTC 
Description of problem:

after installing epel-release, in epel repofile /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo 
there are metalinks incorrectly marked as mirrorlists.
As a consequence, it is not possible to install anything from epel repo
using dnf on RHEL-7.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
epel-release-7-9.noarch
dnf-2.4.1_1-3g9288d90.el7.centos.noarch

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. install epel-release
2. run "dnf -v --disablerepo=* --enablerepo=epel install python2-behave"

Actual results:
# dnf -v --disablerepo=* --enablerepo=epel install python2-behave
DNF version: 2.4.1
cachedir: /var/cache/dnf
error: Curl error (6): Couldn't resolve host name for HTTP://<metalink version="3.0" xmlns="http://www.metalinker.org/" type="dynamic" pubdate="Tue, 16 May 2017 06:25:53 GMT" generator="mirrormanager" xmlns:mm0="http://fedorahosted.org/mirrormanager">/repodata/repomd.xml [Could not resolve host: <metalink version="3.0" xmlns="http; Name or service not known] (HTTP://<metalink version="3.0" xmlns="http://www.metalinker.org/" type="dynamic" pubdate="Tue, 16 May 2017 06:25:53 GMT" generator="mirrormanager" xmlns:mm0="http://fedorahosted.org/mirrormanager">/repodata/repomd.xml).
error: Curl error (6): Couldn't resolve host name for HTTP://<url protocol="http" type="http" location="US" preference="100" >http://mirror.oss.ou.edu/epel/7/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml</url>/repodata/repomd.xml [Could not resolve host: <url protocol="http" type="http" location="US" preference="100" >http; Name or service not known] (HTTP://<url protocol="http" type="http" location="US" preference="100" >http://mirror.oss.ou.edu/epel/7/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml</url>/repodata/repomd.xml).
...
...
error: Curl error (6): Couldn't resolve host name for HTTP://<url protocol="http" type="http" location="CA" preference="70" >http://fedora.westmancom.com/epel/7/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml</url>/repodata/repomd.xml [Could not resolve host: <url protocol="http" type="http" location="CA" preference="70" >http; Name or service not known] (HTTP://<url protocol="http" type="http" location="CA" preference="70" >http://fedora.westmancom.com/epel/7/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml</url>/repodata/repomd.xml).
Cannot download 'https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=epel-7&arch=x86_64': Cannot download repomd.xml: Cannot download repodata/repomd.xml: All mirrors were tried.
Failed to synchronize cache for repo 'epel', disabling.
No package python2-behave available.
Error: Unable to find a match: python2-behave

Expected results:
# dnf -v --disablerepo=* --enablerepo=epel install python2-behave
DNF version: 2.4.1
cachedir: /var/cache/dnf
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 7 - x86_64    37 MB/s |  13 MB     00:00    
not found deltainfo for: Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 7 - x86_64
epel: using metadata from Mon May 15 09:50:08 2017 EDT.
Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:03 ago on Tue May 16 02:40:10 2017 EDT.
--> Starting dependency resolution
---> Package python2-behave.noarch 1.2.5-18.el7 will be installed
---> Package python-parse.noarch 1.6.4-4.el7 will be installed
---> Package python-parse_type.noarch 0.3.4-6.el7 will be installed
---> Package python-enum34.noarch 1.0-4.el7 will be installed
--> Finished dependency resolution
Dependencies resolved.
=================================================================================
 Package                  Arch          Version                Repository   Size
=================================================================================
Installing:
 python2-behave           noarch        1.2.5-18.el7           epel        218 k
Installing dependencies:
 python-enum34            noarch        1.0-4.el7              epel         51 k
 python-parse             noarch        1.6.4-4.el7            epel         24 k
 python-parse_type        noarch        0.3.4-6.el7            epel         57 k

Transaction Summary
=================================================================================
Install  4 Packages

Total download size: 350 k
Installed size: 1.7 M
Is this ok [y/N]: 


Additional info:
when mirrorlist keywords in /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo are substituted with metalink, dnf works as expected.
Comment 1 Kevin Fenzi 2017-05-16 16:24:45 UTC 
Yes, this is because we predate yum handling 'metalink=' in a repo file. 

yum handles this transparently with: 

"As a special hack is the mirrorlist URL contains the word "metalink" then the value of mirrorlist is copied to metalink (if  metalink is not set)."

Im a bit leary of changing this now as I am not sure if older rhel7's yum's would handle metalink=

Perhaps dnf could just use this same workaround? Moving over to them to comment on...
Comment 2 Igor Gnatenko 2017-05-29 09:28:51 UTC 
I definitely don't like this "hacks"... What if I just had metalink.foo.bar/mirrorlist URL... shall it use metalink instead of mirrorlist?
Comment 3 Eva Mrakova 2017-06-13 11:31:48 UTC 
(In reply to Kevin Fenzi from comment #1)
... 
> Im a bit leary of changing this now as I am not sure if older rhel7's yum's
> would handle metalink=
...

I've tested the following scenario for several rhel/yum versions and it always
worked OK:
1. install epel-release
2. replace mirrorlist keyword with metalink in /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo
3. list available pkgs in epel repo
4. install a pkg from epel

rhel/yum versions tested:
* RHEL-7.4, yum-3.4.3-154.el7
* RHEL-7.1, yum-3.4.3-125.el7
* RHEL-7.1, yum-3.4.3-118.el7 (should be the version from released RHEL-7.0)
* RHEL-6.9, yum-3.2.29-81.el6
* RHEL-6.0, yum-3.2.27-14.el6

Example of changed epel.repo:

[epel]
name=Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 7 - $basearch
#baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7/$basearch
metalink=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=epel-7&arch=$basearch
failovermethod=priority
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL-7
Comment 4 Igor Gnatenko 2017-06-13 11:52:35 UTC 
Eva, thanks a lot for testing. Switching back to epel-release.
Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2017-06-24 15:08:54 UTC 
epel-release-7-10 has been submitted as an update to Fedora EPEL 7. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2017-eb495217ca
Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2017-06-24 21:20:42 UTC 
epel-release-7-10 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 7 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2017-eb495217ca
Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2017-07-11 20:51:36 UTC 
epel-release-7-10 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 7 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
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