Yum: the dreaded metadata disease

[Tom Horsley]

On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 19:44:26 +0100
"Michael Schwendt" <mschwendt at gmail.com> wrote:

> What I've experienced multiple times is mirror 'A' giving a repomd.xml
> from three days ago while mirror 'B' was offering up-to-date repodata
> contents. And Yum had started with mirror 'A' and subsequently
> compared A's repomd.xml checksums with B's metadata files.

I don't know about all these different scenarios, but I have
have multiple experiences of all the repos getting the same
corrupt data and even "yum clen all" doesn't fix it, as though
the master that everyone mirrored already had bad checksums.