Strange error on `dnf -y update;`

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hello -

i am not sure if this question is for RL or Mariadb, but i saw a similar issue so i thought i would start here (also i am one of the original members & purchased several RL tee-shirts)

i am getting a strange error on dnf –assumeyes update;

MariaDB Server 2.0 MB/s | 1.6 MB 00:00
Error: Failed to download metadata for repo ‘mariadb-main’: repomd.xml parser error: Parse error at line: 1 (xmlParseStartTag: invalid element name
)

The relevant(?) section of the repo looks like this:

# head -8  /etc/yum.repos.d/mariadb.repo

[mariadb-main]
name = MariaDB Server
baseurl =  https://downloads.mariadb.com/MariaDB/mariadb-10.5/yum/rhel/8/x86_64
gpgkey = file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/MariaDB-Server-GPG-KEY
gpgcheck = 1
enabled = 1
module_hotfixes = 1

any suggestions? this is the first dnf error i have ever encountered. and dnf clean all did not fix it.

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There’s nothing you can do on your system to resolve the issue. Either wait for the maintainers to resolve it or see if they have a community forums and report the issue if it hasn’t been already.

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