[CentOS] Yum corrupting RPMs

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 7:24 PM, Tom Lanyon <tom at netspot.com.au> wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> Trying to upgrade someone's workstation here to 5.2 (was installed from a
> 5.0 DVD I think).
>
> The RPMs on our internal mirror are in-tact and pass a 'rpm --checksig'
> test, yet when I run a 'yum upgrade' a large portion of them are corrupted
> and fail the GPG check.
>
> This seems to be isolated to yum, as downloading the RPM directly via FTP
> with wget or lftpget provides an RPM that *does* pass the GPG check.
>
> I have upgraded key packages to the latest version (eg. yum upgrade 'yum*')
> and tried again to no avail.
>
> Anyone seen this before?
>

The only time I have seen it is where there is a bad HTTP proxy in
between you and the server. It caches a bad rpm and then keeps it til
hell freezes over.




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