On Mon, Feb 10, 2020, at 1:36 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> 
> For the longest time, the Fedora Project has included a baseurl= line 
> in its configs as an alternative to the basic metalink= line. EPEL has 
> followed along, and I expect a lot of users have some sort of 
> sed/awk/ed script which looks for a #baseurl and does something with 
> it. 
> 
> The upstream configs in Fedora's repo files are changing to only have 
> the metalink= line in them, and a couple of Pull Requests to make the 
> changes to the EPEL config files have been placed.
> 
> https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/epel-release/pull-request/6
> https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/epel-release/pull-request/7
> 
> I am announcing the change here so that people can be aware before this 
> starts to show up in EPEL in the next month or so.
> 

This will definitely break a bunch of scripts. Can we at least change it to 
point to example.com if the server load is too great? I use this to point to 
local mirrors when mirror manager is not an option.

V/r,
James Cassell
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