[BlueOnyx:14570] yum checksum error (SHA-256/SHA-1)

[Christoph Schneeberger]

Hi Michael,

Tried to yum up a few 5106R boxes and got:

...
Virtual-5106R | 2.9 kB     00:00
Virtual-5106R/primary_db |  11 kB     00:00
http://bbone.smd.net/vbq/BlueOnyx/5106R/CentOS5/blueonyx/i386/repodata/f6cfd1d5d2f92df00d14144ebbfee15932830be69b6c547c0a9ad30b3010f219-primary.sqlite.bz2: 
[Errno -3] Error performing checksum
Trying other mirror.
Virtual-5106R/primary_db |  11 kB     00:00
http://vbq.solarspeed.net/pub/BlueOnyx/5106R/CentOS5/blueonyx/i386/repodata/f6cfd1d5d2f92df00d14144ebbfee15932830be69b6c547c0a9ad30b3010f219-primary.sqlite.bz2: 
[Errno -3] Error performing checksum
Trying other mirror.
Virtual-5106R/primary_db |  11 kB     00:00
http://mirror.smd.net/vbq/BlueOnyx/5106R/CentOS5/blueonyx/i386/repodata/f6cfd1d5d2f92df00d14144ebbfee15932830be69b6c547c0a9ad30b3010f219-primary.sqlite.bz2: 
[Errno -3] Error performing checksum
Trying other mirror.

..etc.

Seems to have to do with checksums being SHA256 but yum in 5106R is only 
able to use older SHA implementations like sha1 (160bit). At least some 
digging suggests this and creating the repo with "createrepo -s sha1" 
should avoid it. I bet you upgraded the repo master box from Centos to 
SL lately :-)

HTH,
Christoph