Local Yum: New createrepo - New Options

[Rickey Moore]

--- Jeff Vian <jvian10 at charter.net> wrote:

> On Thu, 2006-02-09 at 12:23 -0500, David Cary Hart wrote:
> > On Thu, 9 Feb 2006 06:51:29 -0800 (PST)
> > Rickey Moore <wayward4now at yahoo.com> opined:
> > > When I did yum makecache yesterday, it ran
> > > through a cycle of the install from sites information, then
> > >cycled
> > > again through the list, then cycled again!... so I ctrl c'd.
> > > What was
> > > going on? The first mirror was down and yum selected an
> > > alternate,
> > > then the cycling began. Ric
> > > 
> > I am a tad confused. makecache forces yum to cache all the xml
> files
> > from a repository's metadata. It is most useful for things like
> "provides."
> > 
> > Please review http://tqmcube.com/repo.php If I am missing
> something,
> > please let me know.
> > 
> > 
> 
> This may be due to the current unusable state of the mirrors.
> 
> I just tried using yum to do an update on one of my servers and
> each
> repo gave an error of  
> "[Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum" 
> as it cycled through all the mirrors.

I bet that was what is was... it got a pile of garbage, then
announced that it was trying an alternate mirror, then all of the
recycling began. Thanx, RIc


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