On Wednesday 21 Aug 2013 19:48:09 Michael Schroeder wrote:

On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 07:38:17PM +0200, Nico Kruber wrote:

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the following links returns the "home_scalaris_0.6.x_ArchLinux.db.tar.gz" instead of the needed "home_scalaris_0.6.x_ArchLinux.db" http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/scalaris:/0.6.x/ArchLinux/ x86_64/home_scalaris_0.6.x_ArchLinux.db

same for the .files file: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/scalaris:/0.6.x/ArchLinux/ x86_64/home_scalaris_0.6.x_ArchLinux.files

now when Arch tries to download the file, it uses the name supplied by the server and since it expected a .db file, it is not able to find it afterwards, resulting in the following: =====================

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pacman -Sy --debug

debug: url: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/scalaris:/0.6.x/ArchLinux/ x86_64/home_scalaris_0.6.x_ArchLinux.db debug: maxsize: 26214400 debug: opened tempfile for download: /var/lib/pacman/sync/home_scalaris_0.6.x_ArchLinux.db.part (wb) downloading home_scalaris_0.6.x_ArchLinux.db... debug: curl returned error 0 from transfer debug: response code: 200 debug: url: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/scalaris:/0.6.x/ArchLinux/ x86_64/home_scalaris_0.6.x_ArchLinux.db.sig debug: maxsize: 16384 debug: opened tempfile for download: /var/lib/pacman/sync/home_scalaris_0.6.x_ArchLinux.db.sig.part (wb) downloading home_scalaris_0.6.x_ArchLinux.db.sig... debug: curl returned error 0 from transfer debug: response code: 200 debug: "/var/lib/pacman/sync/home_scalaris_0.6.x_ArchLinux.db" is not readable: No such file or directory debug: unregistering database 'local' debug: unregistering database 'core' debug: unregistering database 'extra' debug: unregistering database 'community' debug: unregistering database 'home_scalaris_0.6.x_ArchLinux'

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ls /var/lib/pacman/sync/home_scalaris_0.6.x_ArchLinux*

/var/lib/pacman/sync/home_scalaris_0.6.x_ArchLinux.db.sig /var/lib/pacman/sync/home_scalaris_0.6.x_ArchLinux.db.tar.gz =====================

strangely though in another repo this does not happen: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/scalaris:/svn/ArchLinux/x8 6_64/home_scalaris_svn_ArchLinux.db http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/scalaris:/svn/ArchLinux/x 86_64/home_scalaris_svn_ArchLinux.files

is there some (temporary) glitch in the repo creation for Arch?!

The difference seems to be that the "home:/scalaris:/0.6.x" repo seems to be mirrored to ftp5.gwdg.de, but the "home:/scalaris:/svn" repo is not mirrored. The download redirector seems to follow the symlink for some reason. We should probably switch to using a hardlink instead of the symlink.

Cheers, Michael.

thanks for the analysis So until this is changed/fixed, some Arch repos are broken. Luckily, our main repo home:/scalaris does not seem to be mirrored either so it works there, too Nico