[Yum] rpm installs without yum - but not when in yum repo.

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Thu Jun 3 18:59:19 UTC 2004


> If I install these rpms manually - they install fine. If I stick them in 
> my yum repository, run yum-arch, then try updating a machine, I get the 
> following ...
> 
> [root at rh73uni root]# yum update
> Error: Cannot find baseurl or name for server 'base'. Skipping
> Gathering package information from servers
> Getting headers from: Red Hat Linux 7.3 updates
> Finding updated packages
> Downloading needed headers
> Resolving dependencies
> Dependencies resolved
> I will do the following:
> [update: openssl.i686]
> [update: openssl-devel.i386]
> Is this ok [y/N]: y
> Calculating available disk space - this could take a bit
> error: unpacking of archive failed on file 
> /lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.6b;40bf2502: cpio: MD5 sum mismatch
> openssl-devel 49 % doerror: unpacking of archive failed on file 
> /usr/lib/libcrypto.a;40bf2502: cpio: MD5 sum mismatch
> openssl-devel 71 % doneUpdated:  openssl.i686 openssl-devel.i386
> Transaction(s) Complete
> 

hmm - that seems bad, somehow. :)

two things.

could you run rpm -K -v those.rpm please?
you've not messed with any other settings on the previously installed
openssl packages, have you?

run rpm -V openssl on the newly installed ones, would you?

-sv




> Any ideas why the yum has trouble unpacking the archives when rpm 
> handles with no errors?
> 
> thanks
> 
> pantz




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