Here’s a solution to the not-so-long-standing issue of the Percona yum repo being broken for the CentOS 6 x86_64 version of the Percona-toolkit package. The repo listing is reporting an older version of the RPM which is not available on the site, so to fix this you just have to download the newer file and tell yum to add it locally. The side benefit is that you can use Yum to manage the RPM without adding the Percona repo, since the default settings for their repo could/have/had caused conflicts with Base Repo versions of MySQL packages; the Percona repo instructions set ‘enabled=1′ — not a great idea if you’re not setup to use the Yum priorities method of repo weighting.
So, if you see this after installing the repo via the
instructions on their site:
Downloading Packages:
http://repo.percona.com/centos/6/os/x86_64/percona-toolkit-2.1.9-1.noarch.rpm:
[Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 22 – “The requested URL returned …