yum error “Cannot retrieve metalink for repository: epel. Please verify its path and try again” updating ContextBroker

Question

I\'m trying to update Orion ContextBroker using the command yum install contextBroker. Unfortunatelly I get the following error:

Loaded plugins: fast

Answer 1

You just needed to update ca-certificates package. Before that just disable all repos with https that are failing. That's why solution with commenting mirrorlist or using http instead https would work also.

For example if you need to disable only epel repo:

yum --disablerepo=epel -y update  ca-certificates

This will also help wget, curl, and anything else that uses SSL certificates.