[CentOS] rpmforge checksum errors
Phil Schaffner
Philip.R.Schaffner at NASA.gov
Tue Aug 28 13:31:18 UTC 2007
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
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