On Tue, 28 Aug 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. I wonder if this could be related to the fact that the metadata and data are synchronized independently and not with the rsync --delay-updates options. -- -- dag wieers, dag at centos.org, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors]