[vbox-dev] checksum error in RHEL 7 repo for Vbox 5.0.18

[Frank Mehnert]

Allan,

On Wednesday 27 April 2016 07:45:37 Allan wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Apr 2016 07:04:54 +0200
> Allan <allan2016 at warpspeed.dyndns.dk>
> 
> wrote:
> > Looking at the error:
> > 
> > http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/el/7/x86_64/repodata/primary
> > .xml.gz: [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum
> > 
> > made me look for a checksum somewhere.
> > it looks like it is in repomd.xml file
> > but I haven't yet figured out, how I can check
> > these.
> 
> I made another test on the Centos system.
> I changed the download URL for vbox to ..../fedora/19/...
> did a 'yum clean all' and another 'yum makecache'
> YUM was happy, all updated correctly.
> 
> Back again to the normal .../el/7/... URL
> and doing 'yum clean all' and 'yum makecache' again,
> and the same error was back again.
> There has to be something bad in that /repodata dir .

should be finally fixed. I was not able to reproduce the problem with
Oracle Linux 7 but saw it with CentOS 7, for whatever reason. The
files were not up-to-date but should now.

Frank
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