用阿里云重建yum仓库时报错：doesn't have enough cached data

【问题描述】

一次用阿里云的epel源替换centos7.1的默认yum源后，重建yum仓库后报错以下内容：

yum makecache

Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, versionlock

One of the configured repositories failed (Unknown),
and yum doesn’t have enough cached data to continue. At this point the only
safe thing yum can do is fail. There are a few ways to work “fix” this:

 1. Contact the upstream for the repository and get them to fix the problem.

 2. Reconfigure the baseurl/etc. for the repository, to point to a working
    upstream. This is most often useful if you are using a newer
    distribution release than is supported by the repository (and the
    packages for the previous distribution release still work).

 3. Disable the repository, so yum won't use it by default. Yum will then
    just ignore the repository until you permanently enable it again or use
    --enablerepo for temporary usage:

        yum-config-manager --disable <repoid>

 4. Configure the failing repository to be skipped, if it is unavailable.
    Note that yum will try to contact the repo. when it runs most commands,
    so will have to try and fail each time (and thus. yum will be be much
    slower). If it is a very temporary problem though, this is often a nice
    compromise:

        yum-config-manager --save --setopt=<repoid>.skip_if_unavailable=true

Cannot retrieve metalink for repository: epel/x86_64. Please verify its path and try again

阿里云Linux el7的epel源下载地址：http://mirrors.aliyun.com/centos/7.7.1908/extras/x86_64/Packages/epel-release-7-11.noarch.rpm

你也可以直接下载：
wget http://mirrors.aliyun.com/centos/7.7.1908/extras/x86_64/Packages/epel-release-7-11.noarch.rpm
然后执行安装：rpm -ivh epel-release-7-11.noarch.rpm
完成后在/etc/yum.repos.d/后会出现：epel.repo

【问题分析处理】

安装上述提示信息第二条，修改配置文件为baseurl作为镜像库的下载来源，再次建立仓库正常。
附：
1）批量解注释：vim 普通模式/末行模式下执行： %s/#//g
2）批量加注释：vim 普通模式/末行模式下执行：%s/^meta/#meta/g