Broken URL for epel-release, strategy for the future

Tony Yarusso tyarusso at nagios.com
Wed Sep 1 21:34:22 UTC 2010


On Wed, 2010-09-01 at 23:20 +0200, Steve Traylen wrote:
> > there is not an easy way to provide a permanent link.
> 
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/repoview/epel-release.html
> 
> is a pretty good permanent link along with some instructions.
> 
> "Please install the latest epel-release RPM from this page"

Considering that this is done by script, not by human, no instructions
necessary.  I suppose we can wget the source of that page, and grep out
the URL.  A bit inefficient, but I guess it will work until there's a
real solution.

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