I guess stop using -c is the answer. Thanks for the replies. John. Johnny Hughes wrote: > On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 13:57 +1000, John Newbigin wrote: > >>seth vidal wrote: >> >> >>>On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 12:16 +1000, John Newbigin wrote: >>> >>> >>>>I am trying to use yum to update the VMware-server package on a CentOS-4 >>>>box (yum-2.4.2-2.centos4). I am getting the error: >>>>[Errno -1] Package does not match checksum >>>>Trying other mirror. >>>> >>>>Error Downloading Packages: >>>> VMware-server - 1.0.0-27828.i386: failure: >>>>VMware-server-1.0.0-27828.i386.rpm from vmware: [Errno 256] No more >>>>mirrors to try. >>> >>> >>> >>>look in the primary.xml for that repo. >>> >>>Look at the checksum for that package. >>> >>>see if it matches the sha1sum of the file you've downloaded. >>> >>>Something doesn't match. >> >>There are 2 files in the repo. Here are the sha1sums: >>515925b3868fbf9fed7581bd38a6a54eb78a0e98 VMware-server-1.0.0-24927.i386.rpm >>36812d24eb5d2eb0d06f1229c654e955267f7005 VMware-server-1.0.0-27828.i386.rpm >> >>The primary.xml metadata has the checksum of the 24927 release for both >>files. Here is an extract of the primary.xml: >> >><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> >><metadata xmlns="http://linux.duke.edu/metadata/common"; >>xmlns:rpm="http://linux.duke.edu/metadata/rpm"; packages="2"> >><package type="rpm"><name>VMware-server</name><arch>i386</arch><version >>epoch="0" ver="1.0.0" rel="24927"/><checksum type=" >>sha" >>pkgid="YES">515925b3868fbf9fed7581bd38a6a54eb78a0e98</checksum><summary>VMware >>Server</summary>... >> >><package type="rpm"><name>VMware-server</name><arch>i386</arch><version >>epoch="0" ver="1.0.0" rel="27828"/><checksum type=" >>sha" >>pkgid="YES">515925b3868fbf9fed7581bd38a6a54eb78a0e98</checksum><summary>VMware >>Server</summary>... >> >>The problem appears to be with createrepo. When I turn off the cache >>option (-c cache) the xml looks correct and yum starts working. >> >>Should I just stop using -c? > > > John, > > I have had similar problems with the -c option in createrepo ... as did > Dag Wieers. > > We don't use it on the centos mirrors specifically because we have seen > that too. > > Johnny Hughes > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Yum mailing list > Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum -- John Newbigin Computer Systems Officer Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies Swinburne University of Technology Melbourne, Australia http://www.ict.swin.edu.au/staff/jnewbigin
