On 04/16/2013 02:11 PM, Glenn Morris wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Recently, trying to do
>
>    yum --enablerepo=sl-fastbugs update
>
> on an x86_64 SL 5.9 system (using a local mirror of the repo) fails with:
>
> file:///data/repo/scientific/59/x86_64/updates/fastbugs/repodata/primary.sqlite.bz2:
> [Errno -3] Error performing checksum
>
> The cause seems to be that the file fastbugs/repodata/primary.sqlite.bz2
> now contains some sha256 rpm checksums (added in the most recent
> fastbugs updates; eg esc, glibc) that SL5 yum does not understand.
> Perhaps the associated data was created on an SL6 system?
>
> The problem can be worked around with:
>
>    yum  --enablerepo=epel install python-hashlib
>
> but the repodata should probably be fixed. Thanks.

Thanks thought I'd fixed that, will be fixed shortly

Pat

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