[pacman-dev] download / database problems

[Xavier]

On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 1:15 AM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>
>

Well, I was wondering why I only found this problem yesterday.
It probably has nothing to do with that csize/any problem after all.
These database errors are probably around for a while, and never
affected us, because we use libfetch url_stat.size for download
progress.
So yesterday, it was more likely libfetch/network/mirrors problem I
was having, and for some reasons, it could not get the total size or
something... I don't know.