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FS#6456 - *.db.tar.gz not synced with recent packages

Attached to Project: Pacman
Opened by Gabriel Linder (raskolnikov) - Tuesday, 20 February 2007, 02:41 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture not specified
Severity Critical
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7.2 Gimmick
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

After syncing my local mirror with rsync.archlinux.org and running my MD5 check script (see attached file), I see there are a lot of missing packages. Actually these packages are not missing at all : there is just a newer package available but the db was not updated to reflect the change, which result in the incapacity to install / upgrade some packages.

For example I get this output from my rsync script, we can see that the db file is ignored (because it has not been updated, I tried to rm my local version and re-run rsync to get exactly the same db as before) :
community start at 2007-02-20 03:14:07
receiving file list ...
1191 files to consider
./
xdm-archlinux-0.2-6.pkg.tar.gz
35934 100% 72.80kB/s 0:00:00 (xfer#1, to-check=29/1191)
deleting xdm-archlinux-0.2-5.pkg.tar.gz
sent 124 bytes received 81892 bytes 12617.85 bytes/sec
total size is 2111613789 speedup is 25746.36
community end at 2007-02-20 03:14:13

And I get this output from my check script (all the packages listed here have this problem) :
Package community/anyfs-0.84.7-2.pkg.tar.gz is missing
Package community/anyfs-tools-0.84.7-2.pkg.tar.gz is missing
Package community/em8300-0.16.0-3.pkg.tar.gz is missing
Package community/em8300-ck-0.16.0-1.pkg.tar.gz is missing
Package community/freetalk-0.69-1.pkg.tar.gz is missing
Package community/gcstar-1.1.0-1.pkg.tar.gz is missing
Package community/gnucash-2.0.4-4.pkg.tar.gz is missing
Package community/logwatch-7.3.3-1.pkg.tar.gz is missing
Package community/qc-usb-0.6.6-1.pkg.tar.gz is missing
Package community/qc-usb-messenger-1.5-1.pkg.tar.gz is missing
Package community/ruby-sqlite3-1.1.0-2.pkg.tar.gz is missing
Package community/shfs-ck-0.35-1.pkg.tar.gz is missing
Package community/xdm-archlinux-0.2-5.pkg.tar.gz is missing
Package extra/fast-user-switch-applet-2.16.0-1.pkg.tar.gz is missing
Package extra/ipw3945-beyond-1.1.3-3.pkg.tar.gz is missing
Package unstable/xfce-devtools-svn-23638-1.pkg.tar.gz is missing
Package unstable/xfdesktop-svn-23995-3.pkg.tar.gz is missing

And I get this from pacman, when trying to install something :
[root@myhost ~]# pacman -Sy xdm-archlinux
:: Synchronizing package databases...
unstable [/home/ftp/mirrors/ftp.archlinux.o] 100% LOCAL
testing [/home/ftp/mirrors/ftp.archlinux.o] 100% LOCAL
current [/home/ftp/mirrors/ftp.archlinux.o] 100% LOCAL
extra [/home/ftp/mirrors/ftp.archlinux.o] 100% LOCAL
community [/home/ftp/mirrors/ftp.archlinux.o] 100% LOCAL
Targets: xdm-archlinux-0.2-5
Total Package Size: 0.1 MB
Proceed with upgrade? [Y/n] y
:: Retrieving packages from community...
failed copying /home/ftp/mirrors/ftp.archlinux.org/i686/community/xdm-archlinux-0.2-5.pkg.tar.gz
error: failed to retrieve some files from community

I don't know why this happen, but each recently added package is not automatically subject to this bug. Maybe someone forgot to run gensync ?
(application/octet-stream)    syncheck-i686 (0.7 KiB)
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Closed by  Aaron Griffin (phrakture)
Wednesday, 21 February 2007, 16:29 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Additional comments about closing:  See last comment
Comment by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Tuesday, 20 February 2007, 06:50 GMT
check TU mailing list for problems with the community repo. they broke it partly (once again).
Comment by Gabriel Linder (raskolnikov) - Tuesday, 20 February 2007, 09:08 GMT
Right, but at least two packages in extra and unstable are concerned too.
Comment by Gabriel Linder (raskolnikov) - Wednesday, 21 February 2007, 12:12 GMT
Just synced, and things are better (communnity seems to be fixed) :
Package extra/fast-user-switch-applet-2.16.0-1.pkg.tar.gz is missing
Package extra/ipw3945-beyond-1.1.3-3.pkg.tar.gz is missing
Package unstable/xfce-devtools-svn-23638-1.pkg.tar.gz is missing
Package unstable/xfdesktop-svn-23995-3.pkg.tar.gz is missing
Comment by Simo Leone (neotuli) - Wednesday, 21 February 2007, 13:07 GMT
the issues in community were some bad permissions on the db file, which was an easy fix.

The others... I don't know about quite yet. I'll look into them more.
Comment by Aaron Griffin (phrakture) - Wednesday, 21 February 2007, 16:29 GMT
This is a package problem. The best option is to contact the maintainer of each package and let them know.

I'm going to close this now. It's a) not a pacman problem and b) not related to the DB as the bug report suggests. Please contact the maintainers, or just wait for someone else to complain to them 8).

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