[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: package[yum-allowdowngrade] exception

["Eric G. Wolfe" < >]

Weird, following that link in a browser seems to be correctly 
formatted.  Is it possible it was a transient error (the mirrorlist site 
was actually down)?  Do you have a corrupt yum cache?

You can try:

yum clean all && yum -q makecache

Which will rebuild your yum cache.

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On 10/19/2012 08:43 PM, Xianfeng Yuan wrote:
> It's http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=epel-5&arch=x86_64
>
> On 10/19/12 4:37 PM, "Wolfe, Eric G" 
> <
>  >
>  wrote:
>
> > What is the URL in your epel.repo file?
> >
> > Xianfeng Yuan 
> > <
> >  >
> >  wrote:
> >
> >
> > Yes. The following is the recipe:
> >
> > %w{ yum-allowdowngrade }.each do |pkg|
> >    package pkg do
> >       action :install
> >    end
> > end
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On 10/19/12 4:13 PM, "Paul Graydon" 
> > <
> >  >
> >  wrote:
> >
> > > This quoted section is the most relevant.  Yum has returned an error to
> > > Chef telling it that it can't find a valid baseurl for the repository.
> > >
> > > If you look in /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo you should see a line like:
> > >
> > > baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/$basearch
> > >
> > > On my systems that's actually commented out and mirrorlist is being used
> > > by preference:
> > > mirrorlist=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=epel-6&arch=$b
> > > a
> > > search
> > >
> > > I'd suggest double checking on the box itself and seeing if "yum update"
> > > will work or if it throws back the same error.
> > >
> > > Did you install epel using Chef or one of it's cookbooks?
> > >
> > > Paul
> > >
> > > On 10/19/2012 12:45 PM, 
> > >
> > >  
> > >  wrote:
> > > > #<Process::Status: pid=1626,exited(1)> - returns: yum-dump Repository
> > > > Error:
> > > > Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: epel