[users] Metadata problems

[Filipe Brandenburger]

Hi,

On Dec 15, 2007 8:20 AM, Dag Wieers <dag at wieers.com> wrote:

> The problem is that yum downloads the repomd.xml file from _one_ of the
> mirrors. This file contains checksums for each repomd file (other.xml.gz,
> filelist.xml.gz and primary.xml.gz)
>
>        http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/i386/dag/repodata/repomd.xml
>
> The problem is that yum downloads this file from one of the mirrors in the
> mirrorlist, and then compares the checksum with those other metadata files
> it downloads from other mirrors.


Ok, but then, why did it fail exactly when downloading the primary.xml.gzfrom
apt.sw.be? If the repomd.xml supposedly came from the same source? From the
output on David's e-mail, apt.sw.be was the first mirror tried:


> Reading repository metadata in from local files
> primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 1.5 MB    00:02
> http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/i386/dag/repodata/primary.xml.gz: [Errno
> -1] Metadata file does not match checksum
> Trying other mirror.
>

I mean, I would admit these errors happening when the external mirrors are
not in sync, but if apt.sw.be is not in sync with itself, then I guess the
problem is not with yum...

Anyway, I also have these problems often with rpmforge, but I don't have
them with CentOS repositories though, and CentOS has mirrors, and I'm pretty
sure they don't control all their mirrors too.

Isn't it possible that the problem is on the script used for mirroring
instead of on yum only?

Thanks,
Filipe
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