yum localinstall and repo beginning with arobase (@)

Question

On a fresh CentOS 7 and for this example, I have installed epel-release using this command yum install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm instead of the usual one yum install epel-release

When I'm doing a yum whatprovides /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo, I've got this result:

# yum whatprovides /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * base: fr2.rpmfind.net
 * epel: mirror.hostnet.nl
 * extras: ftp.pasteur.fr
 * updates: ftp.pasteur.fr
epel-release-7-11.noarch : Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux repository configuration
Repo        : extras
Matched from:
Filename    : /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo



epel-release-7-13.noarch : Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux repository configuration
Repo        : epel
Matched from:
Filename    : /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo



epel-release-7-13.noarch : Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux repository configuration
Repo        : @/epel-release-latest-7.noarch
Matched from:
Filename    : /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo

Regarding the last listed package, what does Repo : @/epel-release-latest-7.noarch mean and how to remove this weird repo from my system ?

NOTE: I've used the epel-release for this specific example. My real issue is exactly the same scenario but with a private repo & private package.

Thank you !

Answer 1

It isn’t a repo per se, but it indicates that it is an installed package installed from an rpm file directly rather than from a repository. I suspect if you run yum reinstall epel-release it will go away, cause the installed file will be from the EPEL repository.