On Oct 17, 2011 8:50 PM, "Alex Ferrando" <alferpal@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Using an XferCommand in pacman.conf causes a bunch of 404 errors while downloading databases complaining about testing/core/extra.db.sig not found, but it doesn't do the same if it's using the default download method without an XferCommand. > > An example of that: > > :: Synchronising package databases... > --2011-10-17 20:36:18-- http://mirror.devnu11.net/archlinux/testing/os/x86_64/testing.db > Resolving mirror.devnu11.net... 78.46.68.28 > Connecting to mirror.devnu11.net|78.46.68.28|:80... connected. > HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK > Length: 35855 (35K) [application/octet-stream] > Saving to: `/var/lib/pacman/sync/testing.db.part' > 100%[========================================================================================================================================================>] 35,855 197K/s in 0.2s > 2011-10-17 20:36:18 (197 KB/s) - `/var/lib/pacman/sync/testing.db.part' saved [35855/35855] > --2011-10-17 20:36:18-- http://mirror.devnu11.net/archlinux/testing/os/x86_64/testing.db.sig > Resolving mirror.devnu11.net... 78.46.68.28 > Connecting to mirror.devnu11.net|78.46.68.28|:80... connected. > HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found > 2011-10-17 20:36:18 ERROR 404: Not Found. > > A more complete example in [1] > > Found similar troubles with curl or aria2, and as said before nothing without XferCommands. > > It might seem quite obvious because the files that the downloaders complain about doesn't exist in the mirrors. However, this seems odd to me and after searching the ML and BBS I found nothing about it. > > [1] http://pastie.org/2713149 > Don't worry, nothing is wrong, it is supposed to happen. -- Kwpolska Sent from my phone. Sorry for top-posting. Blame Gmail.
