Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2016 02:31:53 +0300 From: Rostislav Krasny <rosti.bsd@gmail.com> To: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pkg: cached package size mismatch, again Message-ID: <CANt7McGP-KO-gEYWR%2Bqt5e4OGXhotQ02eZGkQu%2Bgtejt_F5ukg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20161017161722.y545dqur5izs7t7o@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> References: <CANt7McEzz5NMiYT4qiWbw%2BvLcyyk5Mc_FhfundC_u6J6C-B%2BhA@mail.gmail.com> <CANt7McG3A_8RtaBAs0w=E5S5-VgGUSkzSJw93mrdjiGxwcGLUQ@mail.gmail.com> <20161017161722.y545dqur5izs7t7o@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net>
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On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 7:17 PM, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 06:11:45PM +0300, Rostislav Krasny wrote: >> On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 5:55 PM, Rostislav Krasny <rosti.bsd@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > I've a fresh FreeBSD 11.0 installed. When I try to install x11/kde4 by >> > pkg(8) it fails to install the very first dependency package: >> > >> > Fetching ktux-4.14.3.txz: 100% 117 KiB 119.7kB/s 00:01 >> > pkg: cached package ktux-4.14.3: size mismatch, fetching from remote >> > Fetching ktux-4.14.3.txz: 100% 117 KiB 119.7kB/s 00:01 >> > pkg: cached package ktux-4.14.3: size mismatch, cannot continue >> > >> > I found such a problem was already reported in this mailing list and >> > even fixed two years ago: >> > https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2014-August/094447.html >> > >> > Unfortunately It happens again in FreeBSD 11.0. >> > >> > I didn't try "pkg update -f" yet and I don't have ports installed. >> > During the FreeBSD installation I also installed the local copy of the >> > Handbook. This procedure lead to the pkg(8) to be installed and also >> > installed the handbook package. Don't know if this information could >> > help you to understand the issue, though. >> >> The "pkg update -f" helped. But obviously there is some bug in the pkg(8). > > The bug is not in pkg, there is a race in the sync mechanism on the mirrors. > > The window is very small, but the situation is you fetched the db from an old > metadata but only new packages are available at this time. and running pkg > update -f forces the fix. > > There is some work ongoing to reduce this window to something close to 0, but > not yet good enough to be included in the release. Thank you for the explanation. Hope this race condition will be resolved soon.
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