On Tuesday 28 August 2007, Phil Schaffner wrote:
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.
We see it too. My assumption is that it has to do with slow mirror sync somehow. It seems a bunch of mirrors typically sit on a old or new version that does not work with the local data (previously pulled from another mirror). My typical fix is to ignore it (either it finds a mirror eventually that's compatible or I try again later...).
/Peter
Phil