[CentOS] Yum corrupting RPMs

[Ross S. W. Walker]

On Aug 24, 2008, at 9:25 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?
>

Make sure the mime type for .rpm files is text/plain and not x- 
application/octet-stream.

-Ross


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