On Sun, 01 Mar 2009 20:59:00 +0100 Gerhard Brauer <gerbra@archlinux.de> wrote:
When doing ftp install method the selected mirror URL is badly parsed to the generated /tmp/pacman.conf. So fetching the core db from mirror fails. Example:
[gerhard@ws01 ~]$ serverurl='ftp://ftp.he.de/mirror/$repo/os/i686' [gerhard@ws01 ~]$ echo $serverurl ftp://ftp.he.de/mirror/$repo/os/i686 [gerhard@ws01 ~]$ repo=core
old code: --------- [gerhard@ws01 ~]$ echo "Server = ${serverurl/\/\$repo\//\/$repo\/}" Server = ftp://ftp.he.de/mirror\/core\/os/i686
patched: [gerhard@ws01 ~]$ echo "Server = ${serverurl/\$repo/$repo}" Server = ftp://ftp.he.de/mirror/core/os/i686
Cause this code section is commented already as a "hack" maybe it's better to have a solution where we split the $serverurl to get only the absolute mirror URL path (ex: ftp://ftp.he.de/mirror) and build from that our download line for the core repo (ex: "$url/core/os/$ARCH), so we avoid regexe's. Only the core repo needs a "extra" handling, all other repos (if there are any!) uses the pacman.d/mirrorlist method.
Regards Gerhard
Good find. odd because I think I tested that. Note that the "this is a hack" comment refers to the fact if the cdrom is choosen as package source, we switch to ftp for non-core repositories, because the cdrom only hosts core packages. I think the swapping in and out of $repo is pretty clean (conceptually). Your fix is now in the experimental tree :) PS: note, if you're playing further with aif I just would like to mention that in experimental everything should work fine, except the date/time setting that's broken right now. (you can just skip that step though) Dieter