[Yum] corrupted downloads

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Wed Jan 28 17:48:37 UTC 2004


On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 12:22, Karsten Jeppesen wrote:
> Oh - I have one for the wish-list:
> 
> When a file is corrupted. Don't just tell me and budge - delete the 
> offending file and tell me that you did it.
> Remember - some people using tis piece of software are not that happy 
> about deleting files themselves.

use a recent version of yum.

it does this.



> Should the file be corrupted at the repository - then it is acceptable 
> that you are now in an eternal loop. Sooner or later it will dawn on 
> the user that something is screwed up at the origin.

it doesn't delete the file when a gpg sig is wrong b/c it could just be
a missing key, not an actually BAD sig.

-sv





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