Insync breaks Fedora's offline update mechanism - for everyone!

Since I have installed Insync, Fedoras automatic offline update mechanism stopped working. (That is when you shutdown/restart Fedora and slect “install updates”. More info: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/OfflineSystemUpdates)

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Detailed errors from the package manager follow:

Curl error (6): Couldn't resolve host name for https://d2t3ff60b2tol4.cloudfront.net/repomd.xml.key [Could not resolve host: d2t3ff60b2tol4.cloudfront.net]

I am not the only one. Just search for “Could not resolve host d2t3ff60b2tol4.cloudfront.net” on Google. There are plenty of users that have the same problem.

d2t3ff60b2tol4.cloudfront.net” belongs to Insync:

$ grep -r d2t3ff60b2tol4.cloudfront.net /etc/yum.repos.d
/etc/yum.repos.d/insync.repo:gpgkey=https://d2t3ff60b2tol4.cloudfront.net/repomd.xml.key

Hi @fnkr I will tag our engineer @lpugoy and he will get back to you.

@fnkr: Could you try the following:

  • Download https://d2t3ff60b2tol4.cloudfront.net/repomd.xml.key to /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-insync
  • Change the entry gpgkey=https://d2t3ff60b2tol4.cloudfront.net/repomd.xml.key in /etc/yum.repos.d/insync.repo to gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-insync

You mean

file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-insync/repomd.xml.key

not just

file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-insync

right?

file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-insync/repomd.xml.key

^ works!

Now update your repository with the new .repo file and I’m satisfied! :slight_smile:

@fnkr: Either one is fine, I just wanted to test if changing the gpgkey entry to point to a file rather than an HTTP link would work. Glad to know it worked for your case.

@lpugoy Alright.

Question: Why don’t use Fedora Copr? Installation would be easier, just dnf copr enable insync/insync.

@fnkr: Insync is closed source so we create the builds ourselves.