dell repo error

[J. Epperson]

On Wed, January 7, 2009 17:02, Adam Williams wrote:
> have a fedora 8 x64 system i'm trying to run yum -y update on (yes i
> know fedora 8 is no longer supported by fedora) and I get the error:
>
> http://linux.dell.com/repo/software/fc8/x86_64/repodata/filelists.xml.gz:
> [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum
> Trying other mirror.
> Error: failure: repodata/filelists.xml.gz from dell-software: [Errno
> 256] No more mirrors to try.
>
> any ideas?

I know the i386 F8 repos are ok, I just ran an update on an F8 server half
an hour ago, dunno about the 64 stuff for sure.  Do a "yum clean all",
then try the update again.  If no joy, you can at least update everything
but the Dell stuff using "--disablerepo=dell*".