[pacman-dev] Blockers for releasing pacman-6.0.0?

[Andrew Gregory]

On 03/08/21 at 08:55am, Giancarlo Razzolini wrote:
> Em março 8, 2021 8:50 Allan McRae escreveu:
> > On 8/3/21 9:43 pm, Giancarlo Razzolini wrote:
> > > Em março 8, 2021 1:55 Anatol Pomozov escreveu:
> > > > 
> > > > A few people reported about corrupted UI for parallel downloads. It
> > > > seems to be related to "slow downloads" or "failed downloads"
> > > > situations. I would really love to see this bug fixed. Though I do not
> > > > know how to reproduce the problem.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > I get this occasionally when using our tier 0 mirror and pacman 6.0.0
> > > alpha. I think you
> > > could reproduce on a VM/container by capping the download speed to less
> > > than 100Kb/s.
> > 
> > I am regularly on networks with less than 100Kb/s and do not see that
> > issue.  So perhaps more than just speed issues.
> > 
> 
> Sure, could be a situation of both slow network and packet loss. Also, I
> didn't tried with pacman-git in about a month, so things might have changed.
> But the issue described is one I can confirm seeing when you asked for testing
> with the alpha.
> 
> Regards,
> Giancarlo Razzolini

My sync-server-failover branch has a patch to simulate the network
failure as well as test cases that can do the same.