Epel probleem update

As a general rule, if you have problems with EPEL, run 

# yum update --disablerepo=epel\* 

to update your CentOS to at least CentOS 6.5.

Then try your 

# yum install some-epel-package,

or whatever you were trying to do.

I solved this issue editing both /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo and /etc/yum.repos.d/epel-testing.repo files, commenting all entries starting with mirrorlist=... and uncomenting all the entries starting with baseurl=....