Can't download EPEL RPMs using /bin/rpm after the move from download.fedora.redhat.com to download.fedoraproject.org

[Aleksey Tsalolikhin]

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.noar...
Retrieving
http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/x86_64/epel-release-5-4.noar...
error: skipping
http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/x86_64/epel-release-5-4.noar...
- transfer failed - Unknown or unexpected error
warning: u 0x1f5ebe20 ctrl 0x2010e500 nrefs != 0
(download.fedoraproject.org http)
#

Could you please fix this?

Thanks and congratulations for moving out from redhat.com and to your
own domain.

Best,
Aleksey

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 12:45:58 -0800
Aleksey Tsalolikhin <atsaloli.tech(a)gmail.com&gt; 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.noar...
>  Retrieving
>  http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/x86_64/epel-release-5-4.noar...
>  error: skipping
>  http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/x86_64/epel-release-5-4.noar...
>  - 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

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Wed, 14 Mar 2012 21:10:43 -0700
Aleksey Tsalolikhin <atsaloli.tech(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

>  
>  OK.  Thank you.
>  
>  I was following the procedure documented on the EPEL FAQ.  I'd like to
>  update this documentation on
>
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/FAQ#How_can_I_install_the_packages_fro...
Sigh. I wish that page had gone away when I redesigned things... but
people keep bringing it back. 

The best way to look at it is: 

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL#How_can_I_use_these_extra_packages.3F

From the front epel page. 

>  with the above workaround for RHEL 5.  How do I request edit privs
> on
>  the Wiki, please?  I don't see a link to register for a Wiki account. 
Anyone with a fedora account can edit the wiki. Feel free to correct
it. 

>  Yours very truly,
>  Aleksey 
kevin

[Aleksey Tsalolikhin]

On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 1:18 PM, Kevin Fenzi <kevin(a)scrye.com&gt; wrote:
>  On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 12:45:58 -0800
>  Aleksey Tsalolikhin <atsaloli.tech(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>
>
> >  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.noar...
> > Retrieving
> > http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/x86_64/epel-release-5-4.noar...
> > error: skipping
> > http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/x86_64/epel-release-5-4.noar...
> > - 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. 
OK.  Thank you.

I was following the procedure documented on the EPEL FAQ.  I'd like to
update this documentation on
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/FAQ#How_can_I_install_the_packages_fro...

with the above workaround for RHEL 5.  How do I request edit privs on
the Wiki, please?  I don't see a link to register for a Wiki account.

Yours very truly,
Aleksey