[arch-general] System upgrade problems

[Louis Brazeau]

On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 12:48 PM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 11:38 AM, Louis Brazeau <lbrazeau at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 11:13 AM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Can you run with --debug and show us the output?
>>>
>>
>> Aaron Griffin is trying to help me with my problem! I feel blessed :)
>>
>> The output of --debug is quite long so I thought I'd better put it on
>> pastebin. Here's the link :
>>
>>   http://pastebin.com/m3c97b0aa
>
> Hmm, here is the relevant code from lib/libalpm/sync.c. You can see
> this error gets thrown if filename is null, which means
> alpm_pkg_get_filename() returned null on that particular package. Do
> you have any custom repos enabled that could potentially have invalid
> filename fields?
>
> /** Compute the size of the files that will be downloaded to install a
>  * package.
>  * @param newpkg the new package to upgrade to
>  */
> static int compute_download_size(pmpkg_t *newpkg)
> {
>  const char *fname;
>  char *fpath;
>  off_t size = 0;
>
>  fname = alpm_pkg_get_filename(newpkg);
>  ASSERT(fname != NULL, RET_ERR(PM_ERR_PKG_INVALID_NAME, -1));
>

I used to have tanis repo in my pacman.conf but it's been commented
out since june.