Re: Errors installing curl, was: Re: Issues installing binary packages on NetBSD 9.0 (KASLR)

[Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%joyent.com@localhost>]

* On 2020-05-12 at 09:30 BST, Ottavio Caruso wrote:

> Incidentally, on a plain vanilla NetBSD 9.0/amd64, I have a different
> set of errors, I wonder if they are related:
> 
> oc@NetBSD:/home/oc$ doas pkgin update
> processing remote summary
> (https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/amd64/9.0/All)...
> database for https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/amd64/9.0/All
> is up-to-date
> oc@NetBSD:/home/oc$ doas pkgin install curl
> calculating dependencies...done.
> 
> 6 packages to install:
>   libunistring-0.9.10 python37-3.7.5 libxml2-2.9.10nb1 nghttp2-1.40.0
>   libidn2-2.3.0 curl-7.67.0
> 
> 0 to refresh, 0 to upgrade, 6 to install
> 30M to download, 110M to install
> 
> proceed ? [Y/n] y
> libunistring-0.9.10.tgz                       100%  581KB 581.3KB/s   00:01
> download error: libunistring-0.9.10 size does not match pkg_summary

This indicates that the package repository is not being atomically
updated.  Doing so is critical to ensure that the repository is
consistent and to avoid such errors.

It's not necessarily related, but it is another clear issue with this
repository that should be fixed.

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Jonathan Perkin  -  Joyent, Inc.  -  www.joyent.com