[Debian-ports-devel] Metadata corrupted in debian-ports

[Aurelien Jarno]

On 2016-03-23 11:53, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> On 03/22/2016 10:40 AM, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> >> Could you have a look?
> > 
> > It seems the problem has solved alone, as the number of package for
> > those architectures is now above 8000 and even more for ppc64 and
> > sparc64.
> 
> Yeah, that seemed some spurious error which solved itself. However,
> it seems, it's back in a slightly different way. Now wanna-build
> claims that init-system-helpers is missing on m68k, powerpcspe
> and sh4 despite the packages being there and up-to-date:
> 
> > https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=subversion&suite=sid
> 
> Very odd. Are there possibly problems with the filesystem the
> database is stored on?

No it's clearly not related to filesystem corruption. Those kind of
problems are due to synchronization issues with the main archive. It has
seen a lot of bugs recently (a few dinstall on the main archive have
been skipped) and also a lot of changes (xz compression most notably).

In practice the issue you reported is due to the arch:all files not
being synchronised anymore. This seems to be due to the following file
which was empty on the mirrors:

http://ftp.debian.org/debian/indices/files/components/suite-unstable.list.gz

This seems to have been fixed with the last dinstall and propagated to
the mirrors, so i guess the next mini-dinstall will fix that.

Aurelien

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