[pacman-dev] [PATCH] Increase maximum database size

[Eli Schwartz]

On 1/19/20 5:04 AM, Allan McRae wrote:
> On 19/1/20 9:42 am, Allan McRae wrote:
>> We previously has the maximum database size as 25MB.  This was set in the days
>> before repos had as many packages as they do now, and before we started
>> distributing files databases.  Increase this limit to 128MB.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org>
>> ---
>>
>> So this has been hit in the wild.   Manjaro patches their pacman package to
>> allow databases of 32MB, because their [community] repo files database
>> breaks the 25MB limit.   But being Manjaro, the patch was never forwarded
>> upstream, just like everything they have ever done.
>>
>> People in Arch are no better.  A bug was reported, but some idiot (named
>> Antonio Rojas) closed the bug as "not a bug", because it was not an
>> Arch repo running into the issue.
>>
>> So I only discovered this by seeing a closed bug report.
>>
> 
> I'm going to retract my statement there.   Manjaro did report this, in
> the #archlinux-projects channel.  Not the right place, but at least they
> tried.  Reportedly Arch team in there started discussing doing things
> like splitting repos etc to avoid this, rather than reporting or fixing
> the bug.
> 
> So Manjaro did try to help here.  And it turns out I need to extend my
> idiot count to the Arch team members involved in the discussion in the
> #archlinux-projects channel who did not forward the report from Manjaro
> to the right place.

Well, we could stop leaping to assumptions.

Someone very rapidly pointed out:
"i think the best place would be #pacman-dev or the mailinglist, as
thats where the consensus for an upstream change needs to take place"

(followup, in case you're thinking the obvious: "ups, its
#archlinux-pacman")

While it is true that no Arch team members took up the ball on that one,
one could reasonably assume that everyone figured Jonathon from Manjaro
would do so, and never got around to verifying that that happened.
Personally, I'd forgotten about this whole conversation.

-- 
Eli Schwartz
Bug Wrangler and Trusted User

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