Greetings ... just thought I would point out or ask, if there might be an easy way for yum to figure out that the meta data might be out of sync ... Every now and again I get something like the following ... [leet@clee-taylor-64 ~]$ sudo yum -y update Setting up Update Process Setting up Repos http://sunsite.mff.cuni.cz/pub/fedora/updates/3/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 4] IOError: HTTP Error 504: Gateway Time-out Trying other mirror. updates-released 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 dag 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 base 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 freshrpms 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 Reading repository metadata in from local files updates-re: ################################################## 730/730 dag : ################################################## 2796/2796 primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 897 kB 01:21 http://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/pub/Linux/fedora/linux/core/3/x86_64/os/repodata/primary.xml.gz: [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum Trying other mirror. primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 897 kB 01:30 http://ftp.ale.org/pub/fedora/linux/core/3/x86_64/os/repodata/primary.xml.gz: [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum Trying other mirror. primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 897 kB 02:07 http://ftp.chg.ru/pub/Linux/fedora/linux/core/3/x86_64/os/repodata/primary.xml.gz: [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum Trying other mirror. primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 897 kB 01:45 http://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/fedora/core/3/x86_64/os/repodata/primary.xml.gz: [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum Trying other mirror. Which to me would mean that not every mirror has caught up with updates ... What I think yum should figure out, is that a few mirrors with the same primary.xml.gz file would mean that they are a little behind. Instead of going around in circles, should it not retry from the top again? Thanks Mailed Lee P.S. Still one of the most excellent little helpers ...
