I first thought it was a fastmirror plugin error : https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=188986 Thomas Canniot Le jeudi 11 mai 2006 à 13:44 -0600, Michal Jaegermann a écrit : > I wonder if others are seeing similar things of that sort. I am > trying update a package from rawhide, not even extras/development, > so I start 'yum update some_package' and now yum reads repository > metadata and after that it begins: > > .... > primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 862 kB 00:08 > ftp://fedora.bu.edu/fedora/extras/development/x86_64/repodata/primary.xml.gz: [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum > Trying other mirror. > .... > > After that yum goes with the same effect, fetching on every step the > same 862 kB, through > > ftp://fedora.mirrors.tds.net/ > http://download.fedoraproject.org/ > http://fedora.server4you.net/ > http://fedora.cat.pdx.edu/ > http://mirror.linux.duke.edu/ > http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/ > http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/ > http://fedora.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/ > > before finding eventually some mirror with a metadata file which it > is willing to accept. Pretty annoying if one is on the other end of > not-so-fast DSL line and some of these servers are not in a great > hurry too. Extra spurious beating on mirrors as well. > > Yes, I know that in this case I could restart the process with > '--disablerepo=extra*' but once yum started it is not so easy > to dissuade it from continuing (and one hopes - oh, maybe the > next server ....). > > As a matter of fact I have seen recently similar things not only > with rawhide but trying to fetch updates for some FC5 installations > while this apparently worked much better in the past. > > I am curious what is responsible for these happenings and what can be > done to prevent, or at least alleviate, that. > > Michal > -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list