[pacman-dev] Bug #5775

[Georg Grabler]

Hmh, i don't know how that exactly works, i never have been TU or able
to commti any package.

The MD5SUMs seem to be saved server side in the package caches. This
provides two points of failrue:
- The packge wasn't completely transferred.
- The package was already corrupted before uploading.

The 2nd point should be checked by the packagers, installing the packages.

I still think that the md5sums should actually be provided (how ever
that could be implemented) by the maintainers, and just be taken to
the repo by your server side scripts (?).
In this case, the package would never appear if the sums don't match.

Though, what is  a bit curious:
They said after rebooting the system it worked. That would mean the
package was not corrupted. Or was this just on the one bug report i
read?

Kind regards,
Georg

On 2/9/07, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2/9/07, Georg Grabler <ggrabler at gmail.com> wrote:
> > #4744 seems to be added to the list already.
> >
> > Though, i don't know how to test / verify this. I don't know this
> > error using pacman3, have XFS and never got in struggle with pacman.
> > I can't think of a common error, since it would appear more often.
> >
> > Anyone ideas for a starting point?
>
> Well, I looked at it, and the forum threads.  The odd thing is that
> pacman didn't bail with the md5sum checking there, meaning it actually
> thought the package was OK.  I honestly think this means that the
> package itself, when added to the repo, was corrupted.
>
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