I have had trouble getting yum to work on a box that was fairly behind on it's updates. As a work around I ended up downloading several yum packages by hand, rpm -e the old ones and rpm -i the new ones. I still don't see how they could have different checksums if they are hard linked. > -----Original Message----- > From: centos-mirror-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-mirror-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of H. Peter > Anvin > Sent: Monday, July 21, 2008 7:28 PM > To: Mailing list for CentOS mirrors. > Subject: Re: [CentOS-mirror] Yum 3.2.8-9 from msync-dvd.centos.org wrong? > > Lauro, John wrote: > > 2 files linked together and 2 other files linked together instead of 4 > > files linked together? > > Then they're not hard-linked together, though. > > FWIW, we have gotten these bug reports from our users, too. > > -hpa > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-mirror mailing list > CentOS-mirror at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-mirror