[pacman-dev] download / database problems

[Aaron Griffin]

On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 5:25 PM, Xavier <shiningxc at gmail.com> wrote:
> Today I got very strange results downloading packages with pacman.
> For example :
>  gnome-common-2.28.0...     8,9K  112,2K/s 00:00:00
> [#####################] 21167%
>
>> ls -lh /var/cache/pacman/pkg/gnome-common-2.28.0-1-any.pkg.tar.gz
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8,9K sept. 24 00:17
> /var/cache/pacman/pkg/gnome-common-2.28.0-1-any.pkg.tar.gz
>
> /var/lib/pacman/sync/gnome-unstable/gnome-common-2.28.0-1/desc:%CSIZE%
> /var/lib/pacman/sync/gnome-unstable/gnome-common-2.28.0-1/desc-43
>
> 43 bytes instead of 8900 ? wtf ?

Hmmm repo-add problem with symlinks? The any packages are symlinks...
maybe it needs fixing for how it determines filesize