Metadata file does not match checksum

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Fri Apr 4 06:02:05 UTC 2008


On Thu, 2008-04-03 at 21:35 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> Is this a problem with the repo source

Mirrors out of sync, mirrors not finished updating themselves, etc.
It's quite a common thing to see.

> can I clear it by cleaning some local cache info? 

yum clean metadata

It'll flush out the thing it's choking on, without dumping other cached
yum stuff that usually isn't part of that problem, and may be useful to
hang on to (downloaded packages and headers, that you might end up
having to re-download).

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