[pacman-dev] [bug?] pacman 3 doesn't check for free space in /var/cache/pacman/pkg/

[Aaron Griffin]

On 3/20/07, bardo <ilbardo at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I looked at the Flyspray and it seems this hasn't been seen before:
> pacman doesn't care if it has enough space to copy the downloaded file
> from the temporary source, and sometimes it fails. POC follows (I
> filled up my /var on purpose, then tried to install a package that
> wasn't in my cache).
>
> <code>
> [root at damocles ~]# df /var/
> Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sdb6              3092380   3092380         0 100% /var
> [root at damocles ~]# pacman3 -S openvpn
> resolving dependencies... done.
> looking for inter-conflicts... done.
>
> Targets: openvpn-2.0.9-1
>
> Total Package Size:   0.22 MB
>
> Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y
> :: Retrieving packages from current...
>  openvpn                  220.3K  183.0K/s 00:00:01 [---------------------] 100%
> checking package integrity...
> :: Archive openvpn-2.0.9-1.pkg.tar.gz is corrupted. Do you want to
> delete it? [Y/n] y
> error: failed to commit transaction (corrupted package)
> archive openvpn-2.0.9-1.pkg.tar.gz was corrupted (bad MD5 or SHA1 checksum)
>
> errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
>
> [root at damocles ~]#
> </code>
>
> As you may notice, the package is actually downloaded, then marked as corrupted.
>

Should be straightforward to fix.  I'll look into it later on tonight.  Thanks.