[pacman-dev] Issue while testing largefile support

[Andrew Fyfe]

Dan McGee wrote:
> Interesting debug output while testing largefile support in pacman
> (http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/7578):
> 
> [14:55:58] debug: config: finished parsing /usr/local/etc/pacman.conf
> 
> [14:55:58] debug: registering database 'local'
> [14:55:58] debug: opening database 'local'
> [14:55:58] debug: opening database from path '/usr/local/var/lib/pacman/local/'
> loading package data... [14:55:58] debug: loading target
> 'largepackage-1-3-i686.pkg.tar.gz'
> [14:55:58] debug: reading 'largepackage' metadata
> done.
> checking dependencies... [14:56:58] debug: looking for unsatisfied dependencies
> [14:56:58] debug: loading package cache for repository 'local'
> [14:56:58] debug: cannot find package installed 'largepackage'
> [14:56:58] debug: looking for conflicts
> [14:56:58] debug: checkconflicts: db vs target 'largepackage'
> [14:56:59] debug: sorting by dependencies
> [14:56:59] debug: started sorting dependencies
> [14:56:59] debug: sorting dependencies finished
> done.
> checking for file conflicts... [14:56:59] debug: looking for file conflicts
> [14:56:59] debug: searching for filesystem conflicts: largepackage
> [14:56:59] debug: /opt/ is a directory, not a conflict
> [14:56:59] debug: /opt/largefile is a directory, not a conflict
> done.
> installing largepackage... [14:56:59] debug: adding package largepackage-1-3
> [14:56:59] debug: extracting files
> [14:56:59] debug: decompression progress: 0.001907% (40960 / -2146827972)
> [14:56:59] debug: decompression progress: 0.001907% (40960 / -2146827972)
> [14:56:59] debug: decompression progress: 0.001907% (40960 / -2146827972)
> [14:56:59] debug: extracting /opt/
> [14:56:59] debug: warning extracting opt/ (Already exists: File exists)
> [14:56:59] debug: decompression progress: 0.001907% (40960 / -2146827972)
> [14:56:59] debug: extracting /opt/largefile
> [14:59:25] debug: updating database
> [14:59:25] debug: adding database entry 'largepackage'
> [14:59:25] debug: writing largepackage-1-3 DESC information back to db
> [14:59:25] debug: writing largepackage-1-3 FILES information back to db
> [14:59:25] debug: writing largepackage-1-3 DEPENDS information back to db
> [14:59:25] debug: adding entry 'largepackage' in 'local' cache
> [14:59:25] debug: package has no dependencies, no other packages to update
> done.
> [14:59:25] debug: running "ldconfig -r /"
> 
> Here is the package filelist:
> opt/ (directory)
> opt/largefile (a 2GB sized normal file)
> 
> Notice what the above output says- that /opt/largefile is a directory,
> not a conflict. Clearly a problem here. This is pacman built off my
> working branch, so not including any recent patches from Andrew or
> Chantry with regards to the overwrite stuff.
> 
> -Dan
> 
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I noticed this last night, it's a stupid error message, it prints that 
message when the file doesn't exist on the filesystem.

Andrew