On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 9:42 AM, Jeff <jlar310 at gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 6:52 AM, Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> wrote: >> It has been crazy this past week how a rsync on the update repo keeps >> downloading a number of openoffice.org rpms then deleting them. And the >> repodata directory seems to be messed up so that I have problems on some >> systems doing updates with it. > > Perhaps the issue is only with your chosen mirror. I'm not well > educated on how to read the centos mirror status page, but > mirrors.kernel.org does appear to have a potentially questionable > status of late. > > http://mirror-status.centos.org/ > > -- > Jeff Thanks for the note. My local yum repository points to mirrors.kernel.org and I was seeing the same problem as what the OP was reporting. One client CentOS-5 machine was getting errors when yum update was run. Akemi