[pca] unable to download readme ..

[David Stark]

On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 02:29:04PM +0200, Martin Paul wrote:
> David,
>
>> This is a bit odd. PCA downloading readme's direct from Sun doesn't
>> work, but using the pca proxy is fine. I've cleared all the README*
>> files from the cache directory, so it's definitely downloading them.
>
> Not necessarily. pca does all it can to avoid talking to SunSolve, so it 
> will extract the README from the zip file, if it exists. You can see that 
> in your debug output:
>
>   Mon Aug 17 13:09:43 2009: Requested file: README.119254-67
>   Mon Aug 17 13:09:43 2009: Downloading README for 119254-67
> > Mon Aug 17 13:09:43 2009: Trying /pca/119254-67.zip
>   Mon Aug 17 13:09:43 2009: Done
>
Heh. Nice.

> You can use the "--force" option on the pca client, which will force pca 
> (and the proxy) to always download files from SunSolve, ignoring copies 
> e.g. in the proxy's cache. Or remove the cached copy of 119254-67.zip on 
> the proxy.

Yep, confirmed. Readmes are knackered. 
>
>> PCA going direct to Sun gives a 0 byte file.
>
> Thanks. I'm pretty sure now that this affects everybody.
>
> Martin.
>