Re: RAR problem on dag

On Mon, 6 Feb 2006, Dag Wieers wrote:

> Yum doesn't say exactly what the problem is. It might be a corrupted
> package locally, a disk full condition, a proxy problem, I can guarantee
> that this package is available from the server without a problem.

I have seen exactly the same problem, for several weeks, during which 
I have updated successfully other packages. Only "rar" reports wrong 
checksum, even after "yum clean all". I don't have a full disk (and 
did not since the error first appeared) and I don't use a proxy.

I had initially ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de as the http server, after 
seeing the error and thinking that the mirror corrupts either the 
package or the metadata, I have also tried with apt.sw.be and the 
error remained...

> I also still do not understand why Yum cannot continue to work even when
> there is 1 package that has a problem.

As the OP mentioned, it's possible to make yum ignore this error - 
this doesn't mean however that the package can be installed... and 
this is more annoying (to me at least) than the error message itself.

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