FS#8135 - pacman always downloads the databases

Attached to Project: Pacman
Opened by Stefan O. (hybrid) - Wednesday, 26 September 2007, 20:26 GMT
Last edited by Aaron Griffin (phrakture) - Friday, 28 September 2007, 01:56 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category General
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture i686
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 3.0.6
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

On 'pacman -Syu' pacman 3.0.6 always re-downloads the databases (*.db.tar.gz), regardless whether the local copy is up to date or not.
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Closed by  Aaron Griffin (phrakture)
Friday, 28 September 2007, 01:56 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Comment by Dan McGee (toofishes) - Thursday, 27 September 2007, 17:33 GMT
Can you post your libarchive and libdownload versions? If you do not have the most recent versions of these libs installed, it is due to largefile support being enabled in pacman and not the libs.
Comment by Aaron Griffin (phrakture) - Thursday, 27 September 2007, 19:06 GMT
This is, most likely, due to the fact that you are using HTTP and your mirror does not send the Last-Modified header.

Can you try with an ftp mirror (which always gives us times), and see if it is still in issue?

If it is, the best we can do is contact the mirror and ask them to send Last-Modified headers.
Comment by Stefan O. (hybrid) - Friday, 28 September 2007, 01:17 GMT
Actually it was due to outdated libarchive/lindownload versions. Shame on me. Sorry guys, it's not gonna happen again.

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