[CentOS] rpmforge checksum errors

[Phil Schaffner]

On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 08:31 +0200, Kai Schaetzl wrote:
> As already said the problem exists with an unspecified number of
> mirrors. I 
> don't use "a" mirror. I installed your rpmforge repo rpm package.
> That 
> retrieves the list of mirrors and tries one (at random it seems). The 
> checksum fails, it goes off to the next and so on. It seems to do
> this 
> about ten times and then stops. Or maybe it was out of mirrors. One
> time 
> none of them succeeded the checksum check, usually it takes 4, 5 or 6
> tries 
> before I get a valid checksum. 

I also frequently see checksum errors with a similar setup, but seldom
more than one or two failures.  I also use the fastestmirror plugin
which may have some effect on the results.  No proxy is involved and
results are similar at home and at work.

Phil