On Tue, Nov 9, 2021 at 9:54 AM Stephen John Smoogen <smooge@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, 9 Nov 2021 at 10:47, Richard Shaw <hobbes1069@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I requested a CentOS 8 Stream server from IT at $DAYJOB, but it's not IT approved, so they gave me a RHEL 8.2 instance. Well fine, I don't need their support but whatever...
>
> I went to enable EPEL per the docs[1]:
>
> $ sudo dnf install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm
> $ sudo subscription-manager repos --enable "codeready-builder-for-rhel-8-$(arch)-rpms"
>
> So far so good, now I try a 'sudo dnf --refresh update' and get:
>
> $ sudo dnf --refresh update
> Updating Subscription Management repositories.
> Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8.2 - x86_64                             213 kB/s |  79 kB     00:00
> Errors during downloading metadata for repository 'epel-modular':
>   - Status code: 404 for https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=epel-modular-8.2&arch=x86_64&infra=$infra&content=$contentdir (IP: 67.219.144.68)
>   - Status code: 404 for https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=epel-modular-8.2&arch=x86_64&infra=$infra&content=$contentdir (IP: 38.145.60.21)
>   - Status code: 404 for https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=epel-modular-8.2&arch=x86_64&infra=$infra&content=$contentdir (IP: 38.145.60.20)
> Error: Failed to download metadata for repo 'epel-modular': Cannot prepare internal mirrorlist: Status code: 404 for https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=epel-modular-8.2&arch=x86_64&infra=$infra&content=$contentdir (IP: 67.219.144.68)
>
> So I try disabling modular repos:
>
> $ sudo dnf --refresh --disablerepo=epel-modular update
> Updating Subscription Management repositories.
> Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8.2 - x86_64                                      76 kB/s |  79 kB     00:01
> Errors during downloading metadata for repository 'epel':
>   - Status code: 404 for https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=epel-8.2&arch=x86_64&infra=$infra&content=$contentdir (IP: 152.19.134.198)
>   - Status code: 404 for https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=epel-8.2&arch=x86_64&infra=$infra&content=$contentdir&countme=1 (IP: 140.211.169.206)
>   - Status code: 404 for https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=epel-8.2&arch=x86_64&infra=$infra&content=$contentdir (IP: 140.211.169.206)
>   - Status code: 404 for https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=epel-8.2&arch=x86_64&infra=$infra&content=$contentdir (IP: 152.19.134.142)
> Error: Failed to download metadata for repo 'epel': Cannot prepare internal mirrorlist: Status code: 404 for https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=epel-8.2&arch=x86_64&infra=$infra&content=$contentdir (IP: 152.19.134.198)
>
> What gives?
>

the problem is that the system seems to be RHEL-EUS with 8.2 and EPEL
is rolling with latest RHEL. So mirrormanager does not know what
`repo=epel-8.2` is. You may be able to install packages by either
editing the epel.repo to say `repo=epel-8` OR change the baseurl to
point to the 8.2 snapshot in archives:
https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/epel/8.2.2020-11-04/

Great, I asked for 8.4 and got 8.2 .

Thanks for the quick response!

Richard