FC6: Metadata file does not match checksum

Till Maas opensource at till.name
Wed Oct 10 12:02:19 UTC 2007


On Mi Oktober 10 2007, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> Revisiting the annoying "Metadata file does not match checksum" problem,

> since it just came back here like this:
> The cached repomd.xml file is out-of-date from September 19th, and all
> the mirrors offer much newer repodata from Oct 8th. The mirrors are
> not to blame here, since Yum does not consider downloading a fresh copy.
> Instead, it seems it tries to fetch metadata files which match the old
> repomd index:

> Is this observation right?

I always experienced this with any Fedora Release I used (4-7) and imho your 
observation is right. For me setting the metadata_expire high or just do 
a "yum clean all" when this happens. 

Regards,
Till
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