[arch-general] Pacman 4 XferCommand and 404 errors

[Kwpolska]

On Oct 17, 2011 8:50 PM, "Alex Ferrando" <alferpal at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Using an XferCommand in pacman.conf causes a bunch of 404 errors while
downloading databases complaining about testing/core/extra.db.sig not found,
but it doesn't do the same if it's using the default download method without
an XferCommand.
>
> An example of that:
>
> :: Synchronising package databases...
> --2011-10-17 20:36:18--
http://mirror.devnu11.net/archlinux/testing/os/x86_64/testing.db
> Resolving mirror.devnu11.net... 78.46.68.28
> Connecting to mirror.devnu11.net|78.46.68.28|:80... connected.
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
> Length: 35855 (35K) [application/octet-stream]
> Saving to: `/var/lib/pacman/sync/testing.db.part'
>
100%[========================================================================================================================================================>]
35,855       197K/s   in 0.2s
> 2011-10-17 20:36:18 (197 KB/s) - `/var/lib/pacman/sync/testing.db.part'
saved [35855/35855]
> --2011-10-17 20:36:18--
http://mirror.devnu11.net/archlinux/testing/os/x86_64/testing.db.sig
> Resolving mirror.devnu11.net... 78.46.68.28
> Connecting to mirror.devnu11.net|78.46.68.28|:80... connected.
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
> 2011-10-17 20:36:18 ERROR 404: Not Found.
>
> A more complete example in [1]
>
> Found similar troubles with curl or aria2, and as said before nothing
without XferCommands.
>
> It might seem quite obvious because the files that the downloaders
complain about doesn't exist in the mirrors. However, this seems odd to me
and after searching the ML and BBS I found nothing about it.
>
> [1] http://pastie.org/2713149
>
Don't worry, nothing is wrong, it is supposed to happen.

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