On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 12:45:58 -0800 Aleksey Tsalolikhin <atsaloli.tech@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi. > > The EPEL repo is very helpful, thanks for it! > > I can no longer download EPEL RPMs using /bin/rpm after the move from > download.fedora.redhat.com to download.fedoraproject.org. > > # rpm -ihv > http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/x86_64/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm > Retrieving > http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/x86_64/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm > error: skipping > http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/x86_64/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm > - transfer failed - Unknown or unexpected error > warning: u 0x1f5ebe20 ctrl 0x2010e500 nrefs != 0 > (download.fedoraproject.org http) This is because download.fedoraproject.org is a redirect to a mirror. rpm (in rhel5) doesn't follow them. > Could you please fix this? You can wget the file and install it with yum/rpm locally, or you could use 'dl.fedoraproject.org' which is a direct hostname to the master mirrors. > Thanks and congratulations for moving out from redhat.com and to your > own domain. The download.fedora.redhat.com host has been pointing to fedora mirrors for about 2 years now. We only just removed it to make sure people were no longer using it. ;) kevin
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