Thomas wrote:
I first thought it was a fastmirror plugin error :
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=188986
Thomas Canniot
Le jeudi 11 mai 2006 à 13:44 -0600, Michal Jaegermann a écrit :
> I wonder if others are seeing similar things of that sort. I am
> trying update a package from rawhide, not even extras/development,
> so I start 'yum update some_package' and now yum reads repository
> metadata and after that it begins:
>
> ....
> primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 862 kB 00:08
>
ftp://fedora.bu.edu/fedora/extras/development/x86_64/repodata/primary.xml.gz: [Errno
-1] Metadata file does not match checksum
> Trying other mirror.
> ....
>
> After that yum goes with the same effect, fetching on every step the
> same 862 kB, through
>
>
ftp://fedora.mirrors.tds.net/
>
http://download.fedoraproject.org/
>
http://fedora.server4you.net/
>
http://fedora.cat.pdx.edu/
>
http://mirror.linux.duke.edu/
>
http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/
>
http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/
>
http://fedora.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/
>
> before finding eventually some mirror with a metadata file which it
> is willing to accept. Pretty annoying if one is on the other end of
> not-so-fast DSL line and some of these servers are not in a great
> hurry too. Extra spurious beating on mirrors as well.
>
> Yes, I know that in this case I could restart the process with
> '--disablerepo=extra*' but once yum started it is not so easy
> to dissuade it from continuing (and one hopes - oh, maybe the
> next server ....).
Hold down ctrl-c will exit yum after a few seconds.
> As a matter of fact I have seen recently similar things not only
> with rawhide but trying to fetch updates for some FC5 installations
> while this apparently worked much better in the past.
On fedora-extras-list,
someone said that for the last few days, packages
have not been getting signed; possibly a problem with permissions -
don't know if that would apply here.
Re: repodata on
download.fedora.redhat.com not up to date
DaveT.