Douglas Phillipson wrote:
For the past couple of months, yum seems a bit flaky. Running FC4 some
of the repositories are unavailable and yum just fails and dies. Are
there any parameters I can set in my xxxx.repo files or yum.conf that
will allow yum to continue if a repository is down? If a particular
repository is down, I still want to update anything from repositories
that are up.
I'm also getting the following error:
Setting up Update Process
Setting up repositories
Reading repository metadata in from local files
primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 861 kB 00:03
http://ftp.belnet.be/packages/dries.ulyssis.org/fedora/linux/4/i386/dries/RPMS/repodata/primary.xml.gz:
[Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum
Trying other mirror.
Error: failure: repodata/primary.xml.gz from dries: [Errno 256] No more
mirrors to try.
Does this indicate someone is trying to spoof a repository?
No, it's usually a mirror synchronization problem. Some bits of the
source repo changed whilst the mirror was copying it. This should be a
transient problem.
The chances of yum being changed to continue in the event of a repo
being down are very slim. It's been asked for before and rejected,
because you might get updates installed from repo A instead of the
"down" repo B because A has a later version of a package you've
installed from B, and you can't "see" the even later version of the
package in repo B. Since A and B could be implemented in very different
ways (for example, the various clamav packages from different repos), it
would not be a good idea to install the package from A, which would
never get installed if B was available.
Paul.
