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.
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Stephen J Smoogen.