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When I try to use yum and the repo file on the web site, I get this:

[user@host Downloads]$ sudo yum update
Loaded plugins: ibm-check-lotus-updates, ibm-check-xorg-updates, ibm-repository,
              : langpacks, refresh-packagekit, versionlock
virtualbox                                               |  951 B     00:00     
virtualbox/7Workstation/x86_64 FAILED                                          
http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/el/7Workstation/x86_64/repodata/primary.xml.gz: [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum
Trying other mirror.
virtualbox/7Workstation/x86_64/primary                   | 4.4 kB     00:00     
http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/el/7Workstation/x86_64/repodata/primary.xml.gz: [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum
Trying other mirror.

Now, I'm about 1000% certain that this worked in 5.0.20, since YUM was about the ONLY way I was able to get it installed. (using a "mildly mutated by my company" RHEL 7.2).

Is this an actual upstream problem?

I've seen the same problem last year on RHEL 6.7 also on a company intranet.
It looked like something between my system and the download server was caching old repository metadata.
I was able to update by enabling one the company proxies in the yum configuraton which seemed to use another way through the net.

Lovely, given the way our company network is managed, much less how the INTERNET connection is managed, the odds of my getting this fixed are pretty slim.

Try clearing yum caches, if in fact this is a caching issue.

The problem was not yum caching in my case but a transparent caching proxy at the company Internet gateway.

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