Alain Péan wrote:
> What if you delete (or save elsewhere) the primary.xml.gz.sqlite file ?
> If it is corrupted, it would do no arm, and perhaps it is no more used
> or regenerated if it missing ?
This doesn't work unfortunately, yum always creates the same corrupted file:
- here I use yum to delete the yum cache, then I confirm that the file
does not exist anymore, but the subsequent update fails and the
corrupted file is there again
[root@picard ~]# yum clean all
Loaded plugins: downloadonly, fastestmirror, priorities
Cleaning up Everything
[root@picard ~]# ll /var/cache/yum/base
total 4.0K
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Sep 14 21:56 packages/
[root@picard ~]# yum update
Loaded plugins: downloadonly, fastestmirror, priorities
Determining fastest mirrors
* base: mirrors.ircam.fr
* updates: mirrors.ircam.fr
base | 1.1 kB 00:00
base/primary | 961 kB 00:02
Segmentation fault
[root@picard ~]# ll /var/cache/yum/base
total 1000K
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Sep 15 23:43 cachecookie
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 985 Sep 15 23:43 mirrorlist.txt
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Sep 14 21:56 packages/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 961K Sep 5 13:52 primary.xml.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 20K Sep 15 23:43 primary.xml.gz.sqlite
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.2K Sep 5 13:52 repomd.xml
- here I delete just the corrupted file, I confirm that it doesn't exist
anymore, but the subsequent update fails and the file is there again
[root@picard ~]# rm -f /var/cache/yum/base/primary.xml.gz.sqlite
[root@picard ~]# ll /var/cache/yum/base
total 980K
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Sep 15 23:43 cachecookie
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 985 Sep 15 23:43 mirrorlist.txt
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Sep 14 21:56 packages/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 961K Sep 5 13:52 primary.xml.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.2K Sep 5 13:52 repomd.xml
[root@picard ~]# yum update
Loaded plugins: downloadonly, fastestmirror, priorities
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* base: mirrors.ircam.fr
* updates: mirrors.ircam.fr
Segmentation fault
[root@picard ~]# ll /var/cache/yum/base
total 1000K
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Sep 15 23:43 cachecookie
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 985 Sep 15 23:43 mirrorlist.txt
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Sep 14 21:56 packages/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 961K Sep 5 13:52 primary.xml.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 20K Sep 15 23:43 primary.xml.gz.sqlite
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.2K Sep 5 13:52 repomd.xml
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