On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 11:06 -0400, Joshua Jensen wrote: > I am getting tons (like on maybe 1500 machines) of yum errors like this: > > http://wwwin-kickstart/path//repodata/primary.xml.gz: > [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum > > The problem here is that after I update my yum repo, the transparent > caching engines on our very large global network take their sweet time > to update their cache. I see this all over. A temporary fix is to > trick the proxy to update it's cache with wget and it's "--cache=off" > option. > > # Old cache > $ wget -q http://wwwin-kickstart/path//repodata/primary.xml.gz -O - | sha1sum > abb2d1391f24bab5c923795da89106a422998ca8 - > > # Old cache... it isn't a fluke > $ wget -q http://wwwin-kickstart/path//repodata/primary.xml.gz -O - | sha1sum > abb2d1391f24bab5c923795da89106a422998ca8 - > > # Bypass cache > $ wget -q --cache=off http://wwwin-kickstart/path//repodata/primary.xml.gz -O - | sha1sum > 90d664b7fc3c908f9952faa9882d514564039a6c - > > # The bypass updated the cache > $ wget -q http://wwwin-kickstart/path//repodata/primary.xml.gz -O - | sha1sum > 90d664b7fc3c908f9952faa9882d514564039a6c - > > After that, things are fixed. Yum doesn't complain about checksum > mis-matches and works perfectly. Please please tell me Seth that I'm > missing the magic yum.conf option that I can set to get yum to do the > same thing that wget does with the "--cache=off" option!! yum in cvs-HEAD has an option to disable caches. -sv
