mock/yum on RHEL 5.2 - problems building Fedora Development packages?

[seth vidal]

On Thu, 2009-02-19 at 17:11 -0700, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> seth vidal wrote:
> > On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 11:03 -0700, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> >> I'm getting a lot of these messages lately:
> >>
> >> DEBUG util.py:256: 
> >> http://fedora.cora.nwra.com/fedora/linux/development/x86_64/os/repodata/f1acb053849a0584374d5f2f2f08abfc28226665fd2c00842df6508add0394c9-primary.sqlite.bz2: 
> >> [Errno -3] Error performing checksum
> >>
> >> Seems like yum in RHEL5.2 cannot handle the sha256 sums in the Fedora 
> >> Devel (and other) repos?  Is this correct?
> >>
> > 
> > you can install python-hashlib from here:
> > 
> > http://skvidal.fedorapeople.org/hashlib/
> > 
> > and then it will work
> 
> I installed, but still the same.  Wouldn't yum need to be told about 
> python-hashlib?
> 
> yum-3.2.8-9.el5.centos.2.1
> yum-metadata-parser-1.1.2-2.el5
> 

you need yum 3.2.19 from rhel5.3 or soon centos 5.3

-sv