On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 8:52 AM, Pierre Schmitz <[email protected]> wrote: > Am Mittwoch 23 September 2009 11:45:53 schrieb Xavier: >> Anyway this seems to work for all combination (4) of gnutar/bsdtar, so >> it is still my preferred solution : >> tar cvzf test.tar.gz -T /dev/null >> tar xf test.tar.gz > > Looks fine to me; and I think we should implement this. The point is that its > not easy to determine if there is a server/mirror error or if the repo is just > empty. >
Looks like Dan implemented it already :) http://code.toofishes.net/cgit/dan/pacman.git/commit/?h=maint&id=7f14f185a2d05650e1f99f4ec40d60b597e8b0c7 Would a server/mirror error still produce a valid tar.gz file ?
