"yum update" on f11 alpha generates numerous MD5 mismatches

[Robert P. J. Day]

  trying to do a "yum update" on a recently-installed f11 alpha
system, the rpms downloaded, the transaction test appears to have
passed, but almost every single package is complaining about a cpio
MD5 sum mismatch.  should i have expected this?

rday
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[Riku Seppälä]

Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>    trying to do a "yum update" on a recently-installed f11
> alpha
>  system, the rpms downloaded, the transaction test appears to have
>  passed, but almost every single package is complaining about a cpio
>  MD5 sum mismatch.  should i have expected this?
>
>  rday
>  --
>     
I think there was problem with rpm, try "yum update rpm" first.

Riku

[Rahul Sundaram]

Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>    trying to do a "yum update" on a recently-installed f11
> alpha
>  system, the rpms downloaded, the transaction test appears to have
>  passed, but almost every single package is complaining about a cpio
>  MD5 sum mismatch.  should i have expected this? 
Sort of since it has been discussed in this list before. Try

# yum update rpm yum

Then,

# yum update

Rahul

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, Rahul Sundaram wrote:

>  Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>  >   trying to do a "yum update" on a recently-installed f11 alpha
>  > system, the rpms downloaded, the transaction test appears to have
>  > passed, but almost every single package is complaining about a cpio
>  > MD5 sum mismatch.  should i have expected this?
>
>  Sort of since it has been discussed in this list before. Try
>
>  # yum update rpm yum
>
>  Then,
>
>  # yum update 
  yes, i just figured that out, sorry.

rday
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[Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams]

On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 07:36 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>  trying to do a "yum update" on a recently-installed f11
> alpha
>  system, the rpms downloaded, the transaction test appears to have
>  passed, but almost every single package is complaining about a cpio
>  MD5 sum mismatch.  should i have expected this? 
Yes. Get rpm-4.6.0-8.fc11 from koji.

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[Scott Robbins]

On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 07:36:45AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>  
>    trying to do a "yum update" on a recently-installed f11 alpha
>  system, the rpms downloaded, the transaction test appears to have
>  passed, but almost every single package is complaining about a cpio
>  MD5 sum mismatch.  should i have expected this? 
Yes, except that as far as I know, the only place it's been mentioned is
here.  (See my suggestion, powers that be, that it would save a lot of
trouble for people to put a mention by the place where people are
directed to download).  

You *might* by now, be able to fix this by just doing, before running
yum update

yum upgrade rpm

I don't know if it's been fixed to that point yet.

If not.

yum install yum-downloadonly

This will work.

yum --downloadonly install db4-utils

This will download db4-utils and possibly some dependencies and exit
after downloading.

Go to /var/cache/yum/rawhide packages and install db4-utils with

rpm -Uvh db4-utils

This should also work.

At this point, you can grab the tarball I put up--the stuff is also, as
far as I know, still at koji, but in case it isn't.

wget http://www.scottro.net/rpms.tar.bz2

Once it's downloaded

tar jxvf rpms.tar.bz2

cd rpms
rpm -Uvh *rpm

After that, yum update should work.


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[Seth Vidal]

On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 08:51 -0500, Scott Robbins wrote:
>  On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 07:36:45AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>  > 
>  >   trying to do a "yum update" on a recently-installed f11 alpha
>  > system, the rpms downloaded, the transaction test appears to have
>  > passed, but almost every single package is complaining about a cpio
>  > MD5 sum mismatch.  should i have expected this?
>  
>  Yes, except that as far as I know, the only place it's been mentioned is
>  here.  (See my suggestion, powers that be, that it would save a lot of
>  trouble for people to put a mention by the place where people are
>  directed to download).  
>  
>  You *might* by now, be able to fix this by just doing, before running
>  yum update
>  
>  yum upgrade rpm
>  
>  I don't know if it's been fixed to that point yet.
>  
>  If not.
>  
>  yum install yum-downloadonly
>  
>  This will work.
>  
>  yum --downloadonly install db4-utils
>  
>  This will download db4-utils and possibly some dependencies and exit
>  after downloading.
>  
>  Go to /var/cache/yum/rawhide packages and install db4-utils with
>  
>  rpm -Uvh db4-utils
>  
>  This should also work.
>  
>  At this point, you can grab the tarball I put up--the stuff is also, as
>  far as I know, still at koji, but in case it isn't.
>  
>  wget http://www.scottro.net/rpms.tar.bz2
>  
>  Once it's downloaded
>  
>  tar jxvf rpms.tar.bz2
>  
>  cd rpms
>  rpm -Uvh *rpm
>  
>  After that, yum update should work.
>   
You can just run:
yum update rpm\*

-sv

[Scott Robbins]

On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 08:57:41AM -0500, seth vidal wrote:
>  On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 08:51 -0500, Scott Robbins wrote:
>  > On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 07:36:45AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: 

>  > Yes, except that as far as I know, the only place it's been
> mentioned is
>  > here.  (See my suggestion, powers that be, that it would save a lot of
>  > trouble for people to put a mention by the place where people are
>  > directed to download).   

>  > 
>  > You *might* by now, be able to fix this by just doing, before running
>  > yum update
>  > 
>  > yum upgrade rpm
>  > 
>  >  
<the rest of my post snipped>
>  
>  You can just run:
>  yum update rpm\*
>  
>  -sv 
Yes, but not having done a fresh install install since I fixed the issue
the longer way, I wasn't sure that would work for the OP.  

Note that I suggested trying that first.  :)

I repeat, it would save many people a great deal of trouble if a mention
of this is put somewhere near the alpha downloads.  As it is, I suspect
we'll get many posts like this, because what people tend to do,
especially with some experience, is grab the ISO, install and then run
yum update or upgrade. 

Even those on the list probably don't read every post, so can't really
be expected to know about this.


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[Rahul Sundaram]

Scott Robbins wrote:

>  I repeat, it would save many people a great deal of trouble if a
> mention
>  of this is put somewhere near the alpha downloads.  As it is, I suspect
>  we'll get many posts like this, because what people tend to do,
>  especially with some experience, is grab the ISO, install and then run
>  yum update or upgrade. 
>  
>  Even those on the list probably don't read every post, so can't really
>  be expected to know about this. 
No matter what you do, you will not be able to reach all users anyway. 
Nevertheless, intermediate transient issues can be documented in a wiki 
page and linked from the Fedora testing page prominently. Someone should 
volunteer to maintain it. If you want to see your idea implemented, 
just do it.

Rahul

[Rahul Sundaram]

Scott Robbins wrote:

>  I repeat, it would save many people a great deal of trouble if a
> mention
>  of this is put somewhere near the alpha downloads.  As it is, I suspect
>  we'll get many posts like this, because what people tend to do,
>  especially with some experience, is grab the ISO, install and then run
>  yum update or upgrade. 
>  
>  Even those on the list probably don't read every post, so can't really
>  be expected to know about this. 
No matter what you do, you will not be able to reach all users anyway. 
Nevertheless, intermediate transient issues can be documented in a wiki 
page and linked from the Fedora testing page prominently. Someone should 
volunteer to maintain it. If you want to see your idea implemented, 
just do it.

Rahul

[Adam Williamson]

On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 09:10 -0500, Scott Robbins wrote:

>  I repeat, it would save many people a great deal of trouble if a
> mention
>  of this is put somewhere near the alpha downloads.  As it is, I suspect
>  we'll get many posts like this, because what people tend to do,
>  especially with some experience, is grab the ISO, install and then run
>  yum update or upgrade.  
Don't we have an Errata page /section on the Wiki for pre-releases?

If not, why not? :)
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[Christopher Beland]

On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 15:07 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
>  Don't we have an Errata page /section on the Wiki for
> pre-releases? 
Well, I already updated:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_11_Alpha_release_notes

with the solution to this problem (though as previously mentioned on
this list we're awaiting confirmation that this solution actually
works).

-B.