[CentOS] yum update fails for 5.6 (fixed)

Mon Nov 7 18:10:32 UTC 2011
Alex <centos at avantel.ca>

> Vreme: 11/07/2011 05:35 PM, Alex piše:
>> google for "centos error performing checksum" refers to createrepo
>> but of
>> course "yum install createrepo" also fails and the instructions
>> appear to be
>> overkill.  Is there a "simple" soultion?
>>
> <snip>
>> rhel-src/primary
>>                                    |
>> 1.1 MB     00:02
>> ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/5Server/en/os/SRPMS/repodata/primary.xml.gz:
>> [Errno -3] Error performing checksum
>> Trying other mirror.
>> Error: failure: repodata/primary.xml.gz from rhel-src: [Errno 256]
>> No more
>> mirrors to try.
>
> Your problem is that rhel-src repo is not available.
>
> Workaround is to run:
>
> "yum update --disablerepo=rhel-src"
>
> until you disable rhel-src in /etc/yum.repos.d/ file

Thanks - the rhel-src.repo was not needed. Deleted . .

Alex
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