md5 sum not correct

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Mon Mar 16 21:55:00 UTC 2009


Patrick Kaiser wrote:
> hi,
> 
> i am new to the testing list. I installed fc11 the last days and now i
> am having problems to update my sytem via yum update. 
> I get an error about incorrect md5 sum for every downloaded package.
> 
> Someone knows this problem? 
> If you need more information, please let me know which information :)

As noted in the Alpha release notes, you need to do

# yum update rpm

# yum update

This is because Fedora now uses sha256 instead of md5sum throughout the
distribution including RPM for higher security.

Rahul




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