On Wed, 15 Feb 2006, Johnny Hughes wrote:
OK ... I think we may have 2 separate problems here.
One problem is a mirror that shows zero length on a file in dag's repo which is critical to be able to do updates at all. To fix this problem, I don't use that mirror at all for dag repo files ... here is my dag repo entry:
[dag] name=Dag-EL$releasever baseurl=http://dag.linux.iastate.edu/dag/redhat/el$releasever/en/$basearch/dag http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/apt.sw.be/redhat/el$releasever/en/$basear... http://mirrors.ircam.fr/pub/dag/redhat/el$releasever/en/$basearch/dag/ gpgcheck=1 enabled=1
This solves the error that the mirror http://apt.sw.be/ is routinely broken ...
BUT there is also a problem specifically with nmap ... it is a broken package checksum in the yum metadata files. Last time Dag had this problem it was a bug with the way the createrepo -c function worked.
I am no longer using the createrepo -c functionality after the incident last time.
However it seems in the case of nmap, the checksum in the metadata is wrong. Not sure where this comes from (or how I can get rid of it) since I have created the repodata many times since this issue was first reported.
Kind regards, -- dag wieers, dag@wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [all I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power]