[pacman-dev] download / database problems

[Dan McGee]

On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 6:04 PM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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

Ding! We have a winner, the symlink size itself is 43:

$ ll /srv/ftp/gnome-unstable/os/i686/gnome-common-2.28.0-1-any.pkg.tar.gz
lrwxrwxrwx 1 jgc ftp-extra 43 2009-09-21 18:35
/srv/ftp/gnome-unstable/os/i686/gnome-common-2.28.0-1-any.pkg.tar.gz
-> ../any/gnome-common-2.28.0-1-any.pkg.tar.gz

Too bad you point this out the day after we release, hah. Looks like
we need to add the -L option to the stat call in sizecmd, but let's
talk about that on the pacman ML.

For now I added -L to the repo-add script on gerolde; that will be
blown away the next time we update though.

-Dan