[FIXED] Mageia Update : BAD RPMs

[persistability]

Latest mgaapplet came up with this

Installation failed, bad rpms:
http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/mage ... x86_64.rpm
http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/mage ... x86_64.rpm
http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/mage ... x86_64.rpm
http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/mage ... x86_64.rpm
http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/mage ... x86_64.rpm
http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/mage ... x86_64.rpm
http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/mage ... x86_64.rpm
http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/mage ... x86_64.rpm
http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/mage ... x86_64.rpm
http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/mage ... x86_64.rpm
http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/mage ... x86_64.rpm
http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/mage ... x86_64.rpm
http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/mage ... x86_64.rpm
http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/mage ... x86_64.rpm
http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/mage ... x86_64.rpm

Try to continue anyway?

I also found

invalid MD5SUM file (downloaded from http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/mage ... media_info)
invalid MD5SUM file (downloaded from http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/mage ... media_info)

If I then do

urpmi.removemedia -a

and go back in to Mageia Control Centre and ask it to add new RPM mirrors

unable to import pubkey file of "Core Release (distrib1)"
invalid MD5SUM file (downloaded from http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/mage ... media_info)

Any known problem? Workaround? TIA

[sturmvogel]

You can choose an other specific mirror near your location. There are two ways:
Via command line https://wiki.mageia.org/en/URPMI#Adding_media_for_a_distribution.
Or the graphical way: https://doc.mageia.org/mcc/7/en/content/software-management.html#d4e273 -> "File" -> "Add a specific media mirror". Don't use the button on the right side "Add" because there you can't chose a specific mirror and it will add again the nearest/fastest mirror from mirrorlist (which seems to be mageia.org for you atm).

Before you do this check if the mirror you want is up to date https://mirrors.mageia.org/status.

Or you wait some hours and also the mageia.org mirror should be up to date again. Sometimes it happens that some mirrors have a small hickup whilst syncing.

[persistability]

Thx. Eventually persuaded it to pick one that works. Shame its a flaky process, and doesn't guide the user to go back and reselect mirrors, which is what the basic problem is.