Error: Cannot retrieve metalink for repository: epel. Please verify its path and try again on 0.5.2 about yum-epel HOT 6 CLOSED

Running into this on CentOS 6.4 also using yum-epel version 0.5.2. I was able to manually fix my chef run by installing ca-cert bundle:

yum update -y ca-certificates

This package should probably be a dependency/pre-req for this cookbook on CentOS 6.4 (at least with https GPG & metalink URLs... and even mirrorlists that contain https links).

The workaround way for getting my test-kitchen run to work was to use these attributes in my .kitchen.yml:

- name: centos-6.4
  driver_config:
    box: opscode-centos-6.4
    box_url: https://opscode-vm.s3.amazonaws.com/vagrant/opscode_centos-6.4_chef-11.4.0.box
  attributes:
    yum:
      epel:
        mirrorlist: http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=epel-6&arch=$basearch
        gpgkey: http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL-6
        sslverify: false

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Yup this is getting super annoying. I have lots of CentOS 6.4 boxes and cookbooks. I have been overriding the HTTPS urls in all my recipes as and when i need to update them to use the this new yum-epel version. Also updating curl may help, but I really think this recipe should work without having to preprepare with certs or other arbitrary updates. Can these dependencies be encapsulated here?

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Hi. I've updated the yum_repository resource so it manages ca-certificates, and released it as yum-3.5.0.
I tested this against the 6.4 bento box and it clears up this issue.

closing!

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Awesome, thanks!

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Yahoo, thanks ^_^

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I reverted change to to yum_repository, since it wasn't working on EL5, then reverted the commit that enabled SSL on by default on this cookbook.

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