Comments on: Dealing with yum checksum errors

By: houckman

houckman — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 14:54:50 +0000

awesome… thanks!!!!

By: Daniel

Daniel — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 18:39:26 +0000

Thanks man, great tip, yum clean all.

By: PEpiuz

PEpiuz — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 09:25:48 +0000

This is teh best way I foound to resolve this problem also With Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Thanks a lot

By: ogradye

ogradye — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 17:41:15 +0000

So I have upgraded the yum repository box to Fedora 14 and I cannot get it to work again!!! My previos post didn’t work either. So I ‘cat /usr/bin/createrepo’ and see that it executes /usr/share/createrepo/genpkgmetadata.py -v -s “sha1″ . and it works! P.S. I was sitting in the directory which contains the rpms.

By: Mister Andy

Mister Andy — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 23:12:14 +0000

Dude, you rock!

I was having this exact problem, but I couldn’t find anything wrong with the web server, the gzipped files, the GPG signature etc.

Turns out our local YUM box was recently upgraded from RHEL 5 to 6, and now createrepo defaults to using “sha256″, which the old RH/CentOS 5.x clients don’t seem to grok.

Only thing, the createrepo man page said that you have to use “-s sha”, not “-s sha1″.

Once again, thanks!

By: azer

azer — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 09:04:01 +0000

Hi, please, forgive me for my bad english.

How do you set up your client repos ? I’m trying to setup a repositories server (FC13 + centos 5.5), but if I put $releasever in client repos file, the version is 5 not 5.5.

Do you specify manually the version of centos installed on the client ?

Thanks in advance for your help, and this topic is very good because I have exactly the same problem. I’ve just excuted the createrepo with sha1 :)

By: Emmett O'Grady

Emmett O'Grady — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 21:51:12 +0000

Thanks for this blog! Spent quite a bit of time looking before I found this! I was going from Fedora 12 (repository) to a RHEL 5.0 client. I looked into an existing RHEL 5.0 .repo file to see what it was using for the hash – sha ! I used your suggestion with sha and it was no longer an issue! Thanks!!

By: Fouad

Fouad — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 19:13:16 +0000

Thanks
I really tried to make a local repo on RHEL5 and it didn’t work but after I did as you what said.