yum installs (aka Who framed 'the site' ?!?!?! ;) )

[Wayne Steenburg]

> [userid at host apt.sw.be]# md5sum */*/*/*/*/*/*
> 9a540cfd35d4f9ddd1437ca43a096b3d  fedora/2/en/i386/dag/headers/header. 
> info
> 2397997a58cc1244a63c806276e37c2d  redhat/fc2/en/i386/dag/headers/ 
> header.info
> 
> uhm .. two different files ?
> Doesn't redhat/fc2/ is symlink to fedora/2/ (or fedora/$releasever/   
> thing) ???
> 

I would surmise as well.  Could md5sum be generating a checksum for the
symbolic link instead of the target? (I'm not too familiar with the
inner workings of md5sum personally).
 
> xxd of fedora/2/ .... /header.info
> 
> 0000000: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000  ................
> 0000010: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000  ................
> 
> uhmmm ... Houston, we are a problem ;)
> 
> ... and now .. from a yum check-update:
> 
> Finding updated packages
> Downloading needed headers
> perl-Inline-Python-0-0.20 100% |=========================| 2.0 kB     
> 00:00
> perl-Inline-Python-0-0.20 100% |=========================| 2.0 kB     
> 00:00
> perl-Inline-Python-0-0.20 100% |=========================| 2.0 kB     
> 00:00
> perl-Inline-Python-0-0.20 100% |=========================| 2.0 kB     
> 00:00
> perl-Inline-Python-0-0.20 100% |=========================| 2.0 kB     
> 00:00
> perl-Inline-Python-0-0.20 100% |=========================| 2.0 kB     
> 00:00
> retrygrab() failed for:
>    
> http://apt.sw.be/dries/fedora/core/2/i386/dries//headers/perl-Inline-Python-0-0.20-1.1.fc2.dries.i386.hdr
>   Executing failover method
> failover: out of servers to try
> Error getting file  
> http://apt.sw.be/dries/fedora/core/2/i386/dries//headers/perl-Inline-Python-0-0.20-1.1.fc2.dries.i386.hdr
> [Errno -1] Header cannot be opened or does not match perl-Inline- 
> Python, i386.
> 
> ( ... TWO problems !?  ;p)

The freshrpms list is getting posts of a similar nature.  It would
appear that Dag's site is being updated or overloaded and is timing out.