On Sun, 2020-02-09 at 09:36 -0500, John Mellor wrote: > Question for the repo managers, > > Why do I sometimes see invalid checksums for drpm downloads? E.g: > This excerpt from the update this morning: > > > /var/cache/dnf/updates-7fc4c739b3909d9f/packages/selinux-policy- > > targeted-3.14.4-46.fc31_3.14.4-47.fc31.noarch.drpm: md5 mismatch of > > result > > Some packages were not downloaded. Retrying. > > selinux-policy-targeted-3.14.4-47.fc31.noarch.r 14 MB/s | 13 > > MB 00:00 > > It almost always causes the total download size to be larger than any > savings from using the drpm format: > > > Failed Delta RPMs increased 41.3 MB of updates to 43.3 MB (-4.1% > > wasted) > > > > Is this a repo bug? This is not a repo bug, but rather a (small) bug in how selinux-policy- targeted is packaged. A drpm is assembled by taking the parts of the old installed rpm that haven't changed from the local system and then only downloading the parts that have changed. The problem is that a file in selinux-policy-targeted changes *after* it's installed, but dnf doesn't detect that the old installed rpm has changed until after downloading and attempting to apply the drpm. As you can see on my local system, there are four files that have changed after selinux-policy-targeted was installed: $ sudo rpm -V selinux-policy-targeted S.5....T. c /etc/selinux/targeted/contexts/files/file_contexts.local ..5....T. /var/lib/selinux/targeted/active/commit_num S.5....T. /var/lib/selinux/targeted/active/file_contexts .......T. /var/lib/selinux/targeted/active/homedir_template S.5....T. /var/lib/selinux/targeted/active/policy.kern .M....... g /var/lib/selinux/targeted/active/policy.linked .......T. /var/lib/selinux/targeted/active/seusers .......T. /var/lib/selinux/targeted/active/users_extra The file in /etc is marked as a config file, so won't cause the deltarpm to fail, but the changes to the other three will. Arguably, any files that may change on the local system should be marked as config files. Jonathan _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
