[CentOS] Re: [users] CentOS 4.2 dag repo problem.

Wed Dec 7 11:28:07 UTC 2005
Dag Wieers <dag at wieers.com>

On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, Ralph Angenendt wrote:

> Ralph Angenendt wrote:
> > | [root at forge dag]# gunzip -c repodata/primary.xml.gz \
> > | > | xsltproc /home/admin/primarytoshasum.xslt - \
> > | > | sha1sum -c > rpms.txt
> > | sha1sum: WARNING: 22 of 2910 computed checksums did NOT match
> 
> | [root at forge dag]# grep -v "OK$" rpms.txt
> | [root at forge dag]#
> 
> What was it now? 

createrepo checksum cache corruption bug :-(
(See the createrepo -c command)

So it only affected new-yum style metadata (also called repomd).
And that's why subsequent runs to create new metadata all failed.

(up2date, smart, apt and old-yum were not affected)


> Ah yes, thanks for repairing it :)

You're welcome. Sorry it took so long.

Kind regards,
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