Hi,
I’m encountering an issue when trying to download the Podman package via my Nexus repository proxy. The problem occurs because one of the dependencies (passt) contains an illegal character (^) in its version string. I’m using AlmaLinux 9.
The error when trying to download through Nexus is:
wget http://*******/repository/yum-almalinux-proxy/9/AppStream/x86_64/os/Packages/passt-0%5E20240806.gee36266-2.el9.x86_64.rpm
--2024-11-22 12:15:34-- http://*******/repository/yum-almalinux-proxy/9/AppStream/x86_64/os/Packages/passt-0%5E20240806.gee36266-2.el9.x86_64.rpm
Connecting to *******:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 400 Invalid repository path
2024-11-22 12:15:34 ERROR 400: Invalid repository path.
And in the Nexus logs, I get this warning:
2024-11-22 12:15:34,947+0100 WARN [qtp1272403974-3062] *UNKNOWN org.sonatype.nexus.repository.yum.orient.internal.proxy.OrientYumProxyFacetImpl - Unable to resolve url. Reason: Illegal character in path at index 38: 9/AppStream/x86_64/os/Packages/passt-0^20240806.gee36266-2.el9.x86_64.rpm
2024-11-22 12:15:34,948+0100 WARN [qtp1272403974-3062] *UNKNOWN org.sonatype.nexus.repository.httpbridge.internal.ViewServlet - Bad request. Reason: Invalid repository path
When I try to download from the official AlmaLinux repository, it works fine:
wget https://repo.almalinux.org/almalinux/9/AppStream/x86_64/os/Packages/passt-0%5E20240806.gee36266-2.el9.x86_64.rpm
This issue didn’t occur a week ago when I was using the podman-4.9.4-16.el9_4.x86_64.rpm package, but now it’s only available as version 5.2.2-9.el9_5, which has this dependency issue.
Does anyone have experience with this or suggestions on how to resolve it? Is there a way to handle illegal characters like ^ in the version string when using Nexus as a proxy?
Additional info: I am using Nexus version OSS 3.51.0-01
Thanks in advance!