yum cpio: md5sum errors

[Joshua C.]

2009/2/27 M A Young <m.a.young at durham.ac.uk>:
> On Fri, 27 Feb 2009, Scott Robbins wrote:
>
>> I'm wondering if this one of my many Just Me(TM) problems.
>>
>> Has anyone been running into md5 check errors on recent
>> updates--specifically bash and coreutils?
>>
>> Some googling saw someone with similar issues on the devel list, but in
>> his case, he was compiling rpms in a separate environment, so I don't
>> think it was related, though it seemed to be the same programs.
>>
>> (I'm not giving a detailed report simply because at this point, I'm
>> wondering if it's just me, and possibly a new install on shoddy hardware
>> gone bad.)
>
> If you are getting these from f11 alpha/rawhide packages, that just means
> you need to update rpm (eg. to rpm-4.6.0-11.fc11 or rpm-4.6.0-1.fc10)
> because the file digest changed and you need a recent version of rpm to
> handle the new hashing.
> If you are getting it from Fedora 10 or Fedora 9 packages then that is a bug
> you should report.
>
>        Michael Young
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I had the same problem. As Michael Young says update rpm and yum.
According to some reports maybe you need to grab 4.6.0-8.fc11 first
and then upgrade to the latest version.