Bug#280844: apt: apt-get source mozilla-firefox mangles existing orig.tar.gz
On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 04:24:32PM -0800, Daniel Schepler wrote:
> I see the following behavior in apt-get source (on an amd64 machine,
> but it also seems to happen under an i386 chroot):
>
> daniel@frobnitz:~/src/debian/mozilla-firefox$ apt-get -d source mozilla-firefox
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> Need to get 40.6MB of source archives.
> Get:1 http://rama.progeny.com unstable/main mozilla-firefox 1.0-2 (dsc) [979B]
> Get:2 http://rama.progeny.com unstable/main mozilla-firefox 1.0-2 (tar) [40.5MB]
> Get:3 http://rama.progeny.com unstable/main mozilla-firefox 1.0-2 (diff) [75.0kB]
> Fetched 40.6MB in 5m11s (130kB/s)
> Download complete and in download only mode
> daniel@frobnitz:~/src/debian/mozilla-firefox$ grep tar\\.gz *.dsc
> e1dcd4f96def114bcfbc706fbafe6f3d 40543738 mozilla-firefox_1.0.orig.tar.gz
> daniel@frobnitz:~/src/debian/mozilla-firefox$ md5sum *.tar.gz
> e1dcd4f96def114bcfbc706fbafe6f3d mozilla-firefox_1.0.orig.tar.gz
> daniel@frobnitz:~/src/debian/mozilla-firefox$ ls -l
> total 39724
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 daniel daniel 75014 2004-11-10 21:32 mozilla-firefox_1.0-2.diff.gz
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 daniel daniel 979 2004-11-10 21:32 mozilla-firefox_1.0-2.dsc
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 daniel daniel 40543738 2004-11-10 20:17 mozilla-firefox_1.0.orig.tar.gz
> daniel@frobnitz:~/src/debian/mozilla-firefox$ rm *.dsc
> daniel@frobnitz:~/src/debian/mozilla-firefox$ cp *.tar.gz backup.tar.gz
> daniel@frobnitz:~/src/debian/mozilla-firefox$ apt-get -d source mozilla-firefox
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> Need to get 40.6MB of source archives.
> Get:1 http://rama.progeny.com unstable/main mozilla-firefox 1.0-2 (dsc) [979B]
> Get:2 http://rama.progeny.com unstable/main mozilla-firefox 1.0-2 (tar) [40.5MB]
> Err http://rama.progeny.com unstable/main mozilla-firefox 1.0-2 (diff)
> 0 Partial Content
> Fetched 979B in 0s (1240B/s)
> Failed to fetch http://rama.progeny.com/debian/pool/main/m/mozilla-firefox/mozilla-firefox_1.0.orig.tar.gz MD5Sum mismatch
> Failed to fetch http://rama.progeny.com/debian/pool/main/m/mozilla-firefox/mozilla-firefox_1.0-2.diff.gz 0 Partial Content
> E: Failed to fetch some archives.
> daniel@frobnitz:~/src/debian/mozilla-firefox$ md5sum m*.tar.gz.FAILED
> 7748ca6b88ffa8f818e78ed5ed25b8f2 mozilla-firefox_1.0.orig.tar.gz.FAILED
> daniel@frobnitz:~/src/debian/mozilla-firefox$ cmp backup.tar.gz *.tar.gz.FAILED
> backup.tar.gz mozilla-firefox_1.0.orig.tar.gz.FAILED differ: byte 40543738, line 154710
> daniel@frobnitz:~/src/debian/mozilla-firefox$ ls -l
> total 79364
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 daniel daniel 40543738 2004-11-11 16:18 backup.tar.gz
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 daniel daniel 75014 2004-11-10 21:32 mozilla-firefox_1.0-2.diff.gz
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 daniel daniel 979 2004-11-10 21:32 mozilla-firefox_1.0-2.dsc
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 daniel daniel 40543738 2004-11-10 20:17 mozilla-firefox_1.0.orig.tar.gz.FAILED
>
> Oddly, it's done the same thing with other mozilla-firefox tarballs in
> the past, but not on any other packages (at least none that are
> actively maintained).
The fact that it insists on downloading it again is a known bug (I believe
it's even in debbugs somewhere), but the fact that it gets the download
wrong is fairly odd.
What's going on with the (diff) download? What kind of HTTP server is on
the other end? There was a new chunked-encoding bug filed recently.
--
- mdz
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