[pca] Patch keeps re-downloading and appending to existing file

[Rajiv Gunja]

Just to add my experience:

I have had times when pca/wget would refuse to download a patch file stating
that it does not exist, but if I click on the patch file from the -L html
output, it will download the patch without an issue.

Of course this happened to me on only once, on a day when I was trying to
patch about 12 Solaris 8 servers. Once I downloaded the patch from sunsolve
to my pca-proxy server, I had no issue.

-GGR

2008/7/28 Martin Paul <martin at par.univie.ac.at>

>
>  Is anyone else seeing this problem?
>>
>
> Yes, same here. In the debug output you can see that sunsolve announces a
> file of size 68182353, but it delivers only 68182347 bytes. That's why wget
> stalls at 99%, as it waits for the missing 6 bytes. Problem is that those
> don't seem to exist. If you copy 120011-14.tmp to 120011-14.zip in a second
> terminal window while pca/wget is still running, you get a valid file
> ("unzip -t 120011-14.zip" will show).
>
> It seems as if sunsolve does not get the size of the patch file from the
> file itself, but from some other source which is not consistent with the
> actual file. wget (and pca) can't do anything about it - if a web server
> announces a 100 byte file, it must not stop after 99 bytes.
>
> I have no idea what causes this behaviour, but I've seen it in the past
> with different patches, and it always disappeared one or two days later.
>
> Martin.
>
>
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