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[Miles Lane]

On 5/17/07, Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net> wrote:
> Le jeudi 17 mai 2007 à 18:33 +1000, Rodd Clarkson a écrit :
>
> > Along similar lines ... ?
> >
> > [rodd at localhost ~]$ sudo yum clean metadata
> > Loading "installonlyn" plugin
> > 17 metadata files removed
> > [rodd at localhost ~]$ sudo yum update
> > Loading "installonlyn" plugin
> > Setting up Update Process
> > development               100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
> > primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 2.6 MB    00:55
> > http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/i386/os/repodata/primary.xml.gz: [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum
>
> If you're behind a (transparent or not) proxy you have to manually
> forbid caching of repodata directories, else you'll periodically get
> those messages. Yum metadata is not proxy-friendly (ie if you're behind
> a corp proxy you're dead)
>
> Though for http mirrors we control the no-proxy rules should be done at
> the http server level, and I hope yum is fixed someday

I added "http_caching=packages" to yum/conf and ran
rm -fr /var/cache/yum/*
I still get:
development               100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 2.6 MB    00:06
http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/i386/os/repodata/primary.xml.gz:
[Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum
Trying other mirror.
primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 2.6 MB    00:18
developmen: ################################################## 7296/7296
No Packages marked for Update/Obsoletion

My fedora-development.repo contains:
[development]
name=Fedora Core - Development
baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/$basearch/
# mirrorlist=http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/fedora-core-rawhide.us.west
# mirrorlist=http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/fedora-core-rawhide
enabled=1
failovermethod=priority
gpgcheck=0