Re: rpmforge checksum errors

[Dag Wieers <dag@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 28 Aug 2007, Phil Schaffner wrote:

> On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 08:31 +0200, Kai Schaetzl wrote:
> > As already said the problem exists with an unspecified number of
> > mirrors. I
> > don't use "a" mirror. I installed your rpmforge repo rpm package.
> > That
> > retrieves the list of mirrors and tries one (at random it seems). The
> > checksum fails, it goes off to the next and so on. It seems to do
> > this
> > about ten times and then stops. Or maybe it was out of mirrors. One
> > time
> > none of them succeeded the checksum check, usually it takes 4, 5 or 6
> > tries
> > before I get a valid checksum.
>
> I also frequently see checksum errors with a similar setup, but seldom
> more than one or two failures.  I also use the fastestmirror plugin
> which may have some effect on the results.  No proxy is involved and
> results are similar at home and at work.

I wonder if this could be related to the fact that the metadata and data
are synchronized independently and not with the rsync --delay-updates
options.

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