Odd epel problem

[m.roth at 5-cent.us]

Hi, Harry,

Harry Hoffman wrote:
> On Jul 7, 2014, at 4:08 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to install something lightweight on a 6.4 system. (And there
>> are real limits to what I can update - this is an SGI UV 2000, with
>> their customizations). When I go to EPEL, I see stress, and lshw, and
>> yet when I do a yum install with epel enabled, it comes back with no
package
>> [lshw|stress} available.
>
> The two things that immediately come to mind are incorrect architecture
> and/or a bad yum cache.
>
> Can you post the output of yum?

yum install stress --enablerepo=epel\*
Loaded plugins: product-id, refresh-packagekit, security,
subscription-manager
This system is receiving updates from Red Hat Subscription Management.
epel-debuginfo/metalink                                  |  12 kB     00:00
epel-debuginfo                                           | 3.0 kB     00:00
epel-debuginfo/primary_db                                | 641 kB     00:00
epel-source/metalink                                     |  12 kB     00:00
epel-source                                              | 3.7 kB     00:00
epel-source/primary_db                                   | 1.7 MB     00:00
epel-testing/metalink                                    |  13 kB     00:00
epel-testing                                             | 4.4 kB     00:00
epel-testing/primary_db                                  | 386 kB     00:00
epel-testing-debuginfo/metalink                          |  12 kB     00:00
epel-testing-debuginfo                                   | 3.0 kB     00:00
epel-testing-debuginfo/primary_db                        |  28 kB     00:00
epel-testing-source/metalink                             |  12 kB     00:00
epel-testing-source                                      | 3.7 kB     00:00
epel-testing-source/primary_db                           |  85 kB     00:00
rhel-6-server-cf-tools-1-rpms                            | 2.8 kB     00:00
rhel-6-server-rhev-agent-rpms                            | 3.1 kB     00:00
rhel-6-server-rpms                                       | 3.7 kB     00:00
rhel-6-server-cf-tools-1-rpms                            | 2.8 kB     00:00
rhel-6-server-rhev-agent-rpms                            | 3.1 kB     00:00
rhel-6-server-rpms                                       | 3.7 kB     00:00
Setting up Install Process
No package stress available.
Error: Nothing to do

and lsb_release -a says 6.5 Santiago, while uname -a says it's x86_64.

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