Dnf And Failing Epel

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hi everyone,

I use dnf but one epel fails in a peculiar way:

$ dnf repolist Failed to open:
/var/cache/dnf/x86_64/7/x86_64/7/epel/repodata/8415cbb16f52517f34e3edac12a97c9893117f7b9de6cb22fc086048febd1c60-updateinfo.xml.bz2.

that file is there, so I tampered with perms & fcontext but to no avail. dnf clean does remove it but on the first contact to epel repo it fails again. Do you see it with your CentOSes?

ps. I wonder if my email get though to the group, I receive mailing list emails but I don’t get my own emails?

b.w. L

4 thoughts on - Dnf And Failing Epel

  • Do you get this error when using ‘yum’? ‘dnf’ is provided via EPEL
    and isn’t part of CentOS, so you might want to consider filing a bug with EPEL.

    You can sign into this URL:

    … and change the settings. One of the settings is whether to
    “Receive your own posts to the list”. Make sure it is marked as “yes”.

  • it seems it might be CentOS’ problem, on some of my other boxes I find: libsolv-0.6.14-1.el7.x86_64 and I wonder if it had been in the repos and later withdrawn and now absent?
    And instead we have: libsolv-0.6.11-1.el7.x86_64 – which is the culprit.

    it’s been there always. Some mailing lists I do have this problem with, others work fine, and it’s not the settings reason, certainly not that one setting and rest looks ok too. I wonder if CentOS mailman uses some blocking/blacklisting?
    But then why the group gets my emails but me?

  • libsolv used to be in EPEL, but is now part of RHEL/CentOS. Perhaps the ‘dnf’ EPEL package relied on the ‘libsolv’ EPEL package. There’s a bump to the version on RHEL 7.3 to version 0.6.20, so maybe you should stop using ‘dnf’ until CentOS 7.1611 is released, or use the CR
    repo.

    It’s probably because you use yahoo.co.uk. Their DMARC records break mailing lists.