Use EPEL Without Redirection ?

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Hi,

Is there any way to deactivate the redirection to a mirror when using the third-party EPEL repository ?

Our network uses a transparent HTTP/HTTPS proxy with a local AC. We can create exceptions for sites like CentOS.org or download.fedoraproject.org, but whenever we want to install a package from EPEL, the mirror redirection causes an error due to redirection.

Any suggestions ?

Niki
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3 thoughts on - Use EPEL Without Redirection ?

  • In article <3be1bec7-3d50-f8df-7012-982573d9ae80@microlinux.fr>, Nicolas Kovacs wrote:

    Firstly in /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo you need to use baseurl instead of mirrorlist. I assume you are already doing this.

    So then you need to do a curl -i to the baseurl (change $basearch to either i386 or x86_64) to see where it is redirecting you. For example:

    $ curl -i http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386
    HTTP/1.1 302 Found Date: Tue, 22 May 2018 09:04:35 GMT
    Server: Apache/2.4.29 (Fedora) mod_wsgi/4.5.15 Python/2.7
    X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
    X-Xss-Protection: 1; mode=block X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff Referrer-Policy: same-origin Content-Length: 0
    Location: https://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/
    Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
    AppTime: DG93
    AppServer: proxy14.fedoraproject.org

    Then edit baseurl in epel.repo to use the URL listed in Location: instead, changing the i386 or x86_64 back to $basearch

    Then you can create an exception for the specific host you configured.

    Cheers Tony

  • Edit the epel.repo file and comment mirrorlist, uncomment baseurl and replace with a url of your choice.

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