<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="auto">EPEL metalinks point to any number of hosted repositories with the closest and fastest being chosen each time.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I would suggest chosing a single provider from the EPEL mirrors list as your source URL. You could also point it at the primary repository that will be commented out in the epel.repo file.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I don't know the specifics behind why Pulp would fail but I suspect that it is not able to arbitrarily change the source URL every time it is sync'd as provided through a metalink value.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div><br></div><div style="font-size:100%;color:#000000" dir="auto"><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: "Bin Li (BLOOMBERG/ 120 PARK)" <bli111@bloomberg.net> </div><div>Date: 10/12/19 20:30 (GMT-05:00) </div><div>To: pulp-list@redhat.com </div><div>Subject: [Pulp-list] pulp3 sync epel repo </div><div><br></div></div><div class="rte-style-maintainer rte-pre-wrap" data-color="global-default" bbg-color="default" data-bb-font-size="medium" bbg-font-size="medium" style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: small; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, "BB.FixedWidth";">We are able to use "reposync" command to sync epel repo with the metalink, metalink=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=epel-source-7&arch=$basearch, defined in the yum.repo.d. Pulp3 failed to sync to the same url which we defined in the remote. Is this expected behavior? What url should we use to sync the epel repo?<div><br></div><div>Thanks</div></div></body></html>