RHEL / Red Hat – Package does not match intended download.

Currently installing a few C6320 servers with RHEL7.1 to create an OpenStack demo cluster. Since all servers need almost identical setups I wrote some Expect scripts but unfortunately didn’t put the script runtime timeout high enough. This resulted in the connection to one of the servers being interrupted in the middle of a yum update -y.

When trying to run the update again it failed with: [Errno -1] Package does not match intended download. Suggestion: run yum –enablerepo=rhel-7-server-rpms clean metadata Trying other mirror.

Unfortunately, running the suggested clean metadata didn’t fix the problem. Instead, the fix turned out to be a simple yum clean all 🙂