The EPEL repositories appear to not publish signed metadata, so if one enables repo_gpgcheck in yum.conf, as suggested or mandated by some system security policies, the repository will be unavailable and yum will fail:
.../repodata/repomd.xml.asc: [Errno 14] HTTPS Error 404 - Not Found
A workaround is to manually add "repo_gpgcheck=0" to epel.repo.
The EPEL repositories appear to not publish signed metadata, so if one enables repo_gpgcheck in yum.conf, as suggested or mandated by some system security policies, the repository will be unavailable and yum will fail:
A workaround is to manually add "repo_gpgcheck=0" to epel.repo.