On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 19:44:26 +0100 "Michael Schwendt" <mschwendt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > What I've experienced multiple times is mirror 'A' giving a repomd.xml > from three days ago while mirror 'B' was offering up-to-date repodata > contents. And Yum had started with mirror 'A' and subsequently > compared A's repomd.xml checksums with B's metadata files. I don't know about all these different scenarios, but I have have multiple experiences of all the repos getting the same corrupt data and even "yum clen all" doesn't fix it, as though the master that everyone mirrored already had bad checksums.