[pacman-dev] Weird download behavior today

[Allan McRae]

On 15/06/10 18:21, Roman Kyrylych wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 04:17, Dan McGee<dpmcgee at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> I actually made sure I deleted out all of the DB files before I ran
>> the -Syu this time, thus the reason it grabbed all of them (rm
>> /var/lib/pacman/*.db.tar.gz), so there were definitely no partial DB
>> files.
>
> Don't partial db files have .part suffix too (like packages)?
> In that case the rm command above doesn't delete partial files.
>

Correct:

allan at mugen /var/lib/pacman
 > ls -l
total 1060
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 372930 Jun 15 06:43 community.db.tar.gz
-rw-r--r--   1 root root   2729 Jun 15 06:43 community-testing.db.tar.gz
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 464860 Jun 15 03:45 extra.db.tar.gz
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 194560 Jun 15 18:35 extra.db.tar.gz.part
drwxr-xr-x 513 root root  24576 Jun 15 17:51 local
drwxr-xr-x   8 root root   4096 Jun 15 18:35 sync

This is the bug I thought Dan had struck (which Roman filed): 
http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/15657

But I tried replicating using the most out of date mirror I could find, 
stopping the extra repo download partway, and the switching to my usual 
up-to-date mirror:

 > sudo /home/arch/code/pacman/src/pacman/pacman -Syu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
  kernel64                  1.7K  404.4K/s 00:00:00 
[######################] 100%
  testing                  27.0K   39.3K/s 00:00:01 
[######################] 100%
  core                     36.2K   38.8K/s 00:00:01 
[######################] 100%
warning: resuming download of extra.db.tar.gz not possible; starting over
  extra                   454.1K  100.5K/s 00:00:05 
[######################] 100%
  community-testing         2.7K   15.2M/s 00:00:00 
[######################] 100%
  community               364.2K   82.4K/s 00:00:04 
[######################] 100%
:: Starting full system upgrade...
  there is nothing to do

And that seems fine.