rawhide report: changes

[Nigel Jones]

Miles Lane wrote:
> 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
> 
It's got nothing to do with proxies...

[njones at ip-96 ~]$ wget
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/ppc64/os/repodata/primary.xml.gz
--20:59:10--
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/ppc64/os/repodata/primary.xml.gz
Resolving download.fedora.redhat.com... 209.132.176.221, 209.132.176.20,
209.132.176.220, ...
Connecting to download.fedora.redhat.com|209.132.176.221|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 2075290 (2.0M) [application/x-gzip]
Saving to: `primary.xml.gz'

100%[=======================================>] 2,075,290   39.2K/s   in 52s

21:00:03 (39.0 KB/s) - `primary.xml.gz' saved [2075290/2075290]

[njones at ip-96 ~]$ sha1sum primary.xml.gz
09f7c50c2bbe57f4157e5e92e56752f6f86cb916  primary.xml.gz

http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/ppc64/os/repodata/repomd.xml
reports 1fe98d83f6061a33cdfdd9a02856c5523561518a

And I can guarantee it is not cached because I only have i386's and
x86_64's here and I noticed the issue on another ppc64 machine on a
remote network.

I think someone/something messed up?

N.J.