[Yum] yum won't update vmware

[Johnny Hughes]

On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 13:57 +1000, John Newbigin wrote:
> seth vidal wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 12:16 +1000, John Newbigin wrote:
> > 
> >>I am trying to use yum to update the VMware-server package on a CentOS-4 
> >>box (yum-2.4.2-2.centos4).  I am getting the error:
> >>[Errno -1] Package does not match checksum
> >>Trying other mirror.
> >>
> >>Error Downloading Packages:
> >>   VMware-server - 1.0.0-27828.i386: failure: 
> >>VMware-server-1.0.0-27828.i386.rpm from vmware: [Errno 256] No more 
> >>mirrors to try.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > look in the primary.xml for that repo.
> > 
> > Look at the checksum for that package.
> > 
> > see if it matches the sha1sum of the file you've downloaded.
> > 
> > Something doesn't match.
> There are 2 files in the repo.  Here are the sha1sums:
> 515925b3868fbf9fed7581bd38a6a54eb78a0e98  VMware-server-1.0.0-24927.i386.rpm
> 36812d24eb5d2eb0d06f1229c654e955267f7005  VMware-server-1.0.0-27828.i386.rpm
> 
> The primary.xml metadata has the checksum of the 24927 release for both 
> files.  Here is an extract of the primary.xml:
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <metadata xmlns="http://linux.duke.edu/metadata/common" 
> xmlns:rpm="http://linux.duke.edu/metadata/rpm" packages="2">
> <package type="rpm"><name>VMware-server</name><arch>i386</arch><version 
> epoch="0" ver="1.0.0" rel="24927"/><checksum type="
> sha" 
> pkgid="YES">515925b3868fbf9fed7581bd38a6a54eb78a0e98</checksum><summary>VMware 
> Server</summary>...
> 
> <package type="rpm"><name>VMware-server</name><arch>i386</arch><version 
> epoch="0" ver="1.0.0" rel="27828"/><checksum type="
> sha" 
> pkgid="YES">515925b3868fbf9fed7581bd38a6a54eb78a0e98</checksum><summary>VMware 
> Server</summary>...
> 
> The problem appears to be with createrepo.  When I turn off the cache 
> option (-c cache) the xml looks correct and yum starts working.
> 
> Should I just stop using -c?

John,

I have had similar problems with the -c option in createrepo ... as did
Dag Wieers.

We don't use it on the centos mirrors specifically because we have seen
that too.

Johnny Hughes

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