[Yum] yum won't update vmware

[John Newbigin]

I guess stop using -c is the answer.  Thanks for the replies.

John.

Johnny Hughes wrote:

> 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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John Newbigin
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Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies
Swinburne University of Technology
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