Re: Bug in curl makes Fedora ftp:// URL installations fail with some mirrors

2010-10-19 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 09:44:47AM -0500, Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Chuck Anderson said: > > On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 02:03:20PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > > > Yes, indeed, it seems more likely a bug in the FTP server (pure-ftpd), > > > but it would be very nice to have a workarou

Re: Bug in curl makes Fedora ftp:// URL installations fail with some mirrors

2010-10-18 Thread John Reiser
On 10/18/2010 07:44 AM, Chris Adams wrote: [good analysis snipped] > It would be nicer for the server to handle this better as well, but I > think the problem starts with curl. All _three_ parties have work to do: 1. curl has a bug when terminating a transfer before end-of-file: should send AB

Re: Bug in curl makes Fedora ftp:// URL installations fail with some mirrors

2010-10-18 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Chuck Anderson said: > On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 02:03:20PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > > Yes, indeed, it seems more likely a bug in the FTP server (pure-ftpd), > > but it would be very nice to have a workaround in curl or in anaconda for > > it.. > > Why not fix the the probl

Re: Bug in curl makes Fedora ftp:// URL installations fail with some mirrors

2010-10-18 Thread Chuck Anderson
On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 02:03:20PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > Yes, indeed, it seems more likely a bug in the FTP server (pure-ftpd), > but it would be very nice to have a workaround in curl or in anaconda for > it.. Why not fix the the problem at the source? > I'm sure ftp.funet.fi is not th

Re: Bug in curl makes Fedora ftp:// URL installations fail with some mirrors

2010-10-17 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 09:29:48AM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 11:49:39PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > > You can reproduce the bug like this: > > curl -o iputils-20071127-10.fc13.x86_64.rpm --range 1384-1400 > > ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/fedora.redhat.com/pub

Re: Bug in curl makes Fedora ftp:// URL installations fail with some mirrors

2010-10-17 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 11:49:39PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > You can reproduce the bug like this: > curl -o iputils-20071127-10.fc13.x86_64.rpm --range 1384-1400 > ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/13/Fedora/x86_64/os/Packages/iputils-20071127-10.fc13

Bug in curl makes Fedora ftp:// URL installations fail with some mirrors

2010-10-16 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
Hello, This bug is present in Fedora 13, and probably in Fedora 14 aswell. Initial report about the issue: "Fedora 13 installer fails to fetch some files from FTP mirror and installation fails, wget works ok": https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=624431 Actual bug: "curl range support (R