I think it's now got to the stage of: Which mirrors actually do work? This is what I see nearly EVERY time I try to do a YUM update over the last few weeks: http://fedora.ngi.it/4/i386/os/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno -1] http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/fedora/linux/extras/4/i386/repodata/primary.xml.gz: [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/fedora/extras/4/i386/repodata/primary.xml.gz: [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum Trying other mirror. http://fedora.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/fedora.redhat/linux/extras/4/i386/repodata/primary.xml.gz: [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum http://mirror.web-ster.com/fedora/extras/4/i386/repodata/primary.xml.gz: [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum http://fedora.cat.pdx.edu/linux/extras/4/i386/repodata/primary.xml.gz: [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum http://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/fedora/extras/4/i386/repodata/primary.xml.gz: [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum http://ftp.uni-bayreuth.de/linux/fedora/linux/extras/4/i386/repodata/primary.xml.gz: [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum http://ftp.chg.ru/pub/Linux/fedora/linux/extras/4/i386/repodata/primary.xml.gz: [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/fedora.redhat.com/linux/extras/4/i386/repodata/primary.xml.gz: [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum http://mirror.hiwaay.net/redhat/fedora/linux/extras/4/i386/repodata/primary.xml.gz: [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/extras/4/i386/repodata/primary.xml.gz: [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum ************************** If this can't get it right!!! Isn't it the source? http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/extras/4/i386/repodata/primary.xml.gz: [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum http://ftp.kddilabs.jp/Linux/packages/fedora/extras/4/i386/repodata/primary.xml.gz: [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/4/i386/repodata/primary.xml.gz: [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum http://fr.rpmfind.net/linux/fedora/extras/4/i386/repodata/primary.xml.gz: [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum http://ftp.lug.ro/fedora/linux/extras/4/i386/repodata/primary.xml.gz: [Errno 4] IOError: HTTP Error 404: Connection: close http://ftp.lug.ro/fedora/linux/extras/4/i386/repodata/primary.xml.gz: [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum http://fr.rpmfind.net/linux/fedora/extras/4/i386/repodata/primary.xml.gz: [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum http://mirror.web-ster.com/fedora/extras/4/i386/repodata/primary.xml.gz: [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum http://fedora.cat.pdx.edu/linux/extras/4/i386/repodata/primary.xml.gz: [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/4/i386/repodata/primary.xml.gz: [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/extras/4/i386/repodata/primary.xml.gz: [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum http://mirror.hiwaay.net/redhat/fedora/linux/extras/4/i386/repodata/primary.xml.gz: [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/fedora/extras/4/i386/repodata/primary.xml.gz: [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum http://ftp.kddilabs.jp/Linux/packages/fedora/extras/4/i386/repodata/primary.xml.gz: [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum http://fedora.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/fedora.redhat/linux/extras/4/i386/repodata/primary.xml.gz: [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/extras/4/i386/repodata/primary.xml.gz: [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum http://ftp.chg.ru/pub/Linux/fedora/linux/extras/4/i386/repodata/primary.xml.gz: [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/fedora/linux/extras/4/i386/repodata/primary.xml.gz: [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum http://ftp.uni-bayreuth.de/linux/fedora/linux/extras/4/i386/repodata/primary.xml.gz: [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum http://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/fedora/extras/4/i386/repodata/primary.xml.gz: [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/fedora.redhat.com/linux/extras/4/i386/repodata/primary.xml.gz: [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum Trying other mirror. Error: failure: repodata/primary.xml.gz from extras: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try. That's about FORTY MEGABYTES of my download allowance wasted, repeatedly fetching a 1.3meg file. No, doing a yum clean metadata doesn't help. And I'm not going to do a yum clean all. There's something seriously wrong with how this is managed. -- (Currently running FC4, occasionally trying FC5.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
