Yum Update doesn't work (formerly NFS problem -- just doesn'twork)

[Matt Smith]

Found a workaround on the forums:
http://www.yellowdog-board.com/viewtopic.php?p=9256#9256

- Matt
 

-----Original Message-----
From: yellowdog-newbie-bounces at lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
[mailto:yellowdog-newbie-bounces at lists.terrasoftsolutions.com] On Behalf Of
Matt Smith
Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2007 8:26 PM
To: 'Discussion List for New Yellow Dog Linux Users'
Subject: RE: Yum Update doesn't work (formerly NFS problem -- just
doesn'twork)

> When I try that I get the following error message:
> 
> http://ftp.yellowdoglinux.com/pub/yellowdog/yum/5.0/updates/repodata/
> primary.xml.gz:
> [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum Trying other mirror.
> Error: failure: repodata/primary.xml.gz from updates: [Errno 256] No 
> more
mirrors to try.

I get the same thing.  I tried configuring to use a mirror by adding some
new repos to my yum.repos.d directory, and got the same error from that
repository.  

Is this the right way to configure using a mirror?

/etc/yum.repos.d/wisc-base.repo:
[wisconsinbase]
name=Wisconsin Mirror
baseurl=ftp://mirror.services.wisc.edu/pub/linux/distributions/yellowdog/yum
/5.0/base/
enabled=1

Then I added wisc-extras.repo and wisc-update.repo the same way. 

I got the URL to the repo out of the MIRRORS file off of
ftp.yellowdoglinux.com.  Here's the head of the file:

Yellow Dog Linux Mirror Sites
-----------------------------

USA
- http://ftp.yellowdoglinux.com/pub/yellowdog/
- ftp://ftp.yellowdoglinux.com/pub/yellowdog/
- ftp://mirror.services.wisc.edu/mirrors/linux/distributions/yellowdog/

-----
Matt Smith

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