What's up with yum lately

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Wed Apr 26 03:14:27 UTC 2006


Douglas Phillipson:
>> [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum
>> Trying other mirror.
>> Error: failure: repodata/primary.xml.gz from dries: [Errno 256] No more 
>> mirrors to try.
>> 
>> Does this indicate someone is trying to spoof a repository?

Paul Howarth:
> No, it's usually a mirror synchronization problem. Some bits of the 
> source repo changed whilst the mirror was copying it. This should be a 
> transient problem.

I used to see this *occasionally*, now I see multiple occurances (one
different server after another) of this nearly *every* time I try to use
YUM over the last couple of months.

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