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author | Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org> | 2017-05-09 03:35:06 +0200 |
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committer | Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org> | 2017-05-09 03:35:06 +0200 |
commit | adc95f436b55dde320e9be9e38e7f4b48df4cdc5 (patch) | |
tree | 5a5ea425cc6a15a5a79120ed9ee6760d08b5c24e | |
parent | f4e2009e9b01a3ebff8b54e059d4f0422a139016 (diff) | |
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Do not continuously try to open an invalid database
If you manage to download a bad database (e.g. an html file when
behind a proxy or with a badly configured webserver), pacman makes
sure you know about it. Here is some example output:
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/extra.db: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/extra.db: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/extra.db: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/extra.db: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/extra.db: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/extra.db: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/extra.db: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/extra.db: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/extra.db: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/extra.db: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/extra.db: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/extra.db: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/extra.db: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/extra.db: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/extra.db: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/extra.db: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/extra.db: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/extra.db: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/extra.db: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/extra.db: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/extra.db: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/extra.db: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/extra.db: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/extra.db: Unrecognized archive format
I don't know how many times that gets printed because it goes beyond my scrollback
buffer.
Flag a database that we can "open" and "fstat" but not read from as invalid to avoid
this.
Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
-rw-r--r-- | lib/libalpm/be_sync.c | 3 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | lib/libalpm/util.c | 1 |
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libalpm/be_sync.c b/lib/libalpm/be_sync.c index 06f509a6..46959298 100644 --- a/lib/libalpm/be_sync.c +++ b/lib/libalpm/be_sync.c @@ -486,6 +486,9 @@ static int sync_db_populate(alpm_db_t *db) fd = _alpm_open_archive(db->handle, dbpath, &buf, &archive, ALPM_ERR_DB_OPEN); if(fd < 0) { + if(db->handle->pm_errno == ALPM_ERR_DB_INVALID) { + db->status &= DB_STATUS_INVALID; + } return -1; } est_count = estimate_package_count(&buf, archive); diff --git a/lib/libalpm/util.c b/lib/libalpm/util.c index 35fc7f41..0fb9bb6d 100644 --- a/lib/libalpm/util.c +++ b/lib/libalpm/util.c @@ -268,6 +268,7 @@ int _alpm_open_archive(alpm_handle_t *handle, const char *path, if(archive_read_open_fd(*archive, fd, bufsize) != ARCHIVE_OK) { _alpm_log(handle, ALPM_LOG_ERROR, _("could not open file %s: %s\n"), path, archive_error_string(*archive)); + error = ALPM_ERR_DB_INVALID; goto error; } |