I am seeing this same issue via 'yumdownloader'. It appears to be a bug in urlgrabber, fixed here http://yum.baseurl.org/gitweb?p=urlgrabber.git;a=commitdiff;h=b6bfd59c4393ea8ba5165aabb249c37d6d2a9931
For explanation, see http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/curl_easy_setopt.html#CURLOPTSSLVERIFYHOST The bug is still present in the latest upstream 3.9.1 release of urlgrabber. It is possible to work-around the urlgrabber bug by setting the options 'ssl_verify_host' to 2 instead of True, though 'True' is expected value according to the pydoc: > self.ssl_verify_host = True > > Check the server's hostname to make sure it matches the certificate DN -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1200288 Title: yum error in lxc-create -t fedora To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/yum/+bug/1200288/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs