On Tue, 1 Dec 2020 at 12:58, Jon Moroney <jonm@rescale.com> wrote:
Hey all,

Is there a reason both the el7 and 8 repo rpms are returning 403s? Are they expected to return or is there a migration occurring?

https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm

Thanks,
Jon

So the softlinks in /pub/epel/ got updated on a new compose to new releases and that caused these packages to no longer 'work'. I had put them as hardlinks to the package previously so that you could get at least a working version but this caused people complaining about update problems with latest not being 'latest' until after a yum update.

https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/issue/9507

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Stephen J Smoogen.