Bug 57041

Summary:	RPM fails on servers which do not recognize the SIZE command
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Frank Hirtz <fhirtz>
Component:	rpm	Assignee:	Paul Nasrat <nobody+pnasrat>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Mike McLean <mikem>
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Description Frank Hirtz 2001-12-03 18:31:56 UTC

Description of Problem:
RPM fails on servers which do not recognize the SIZE command.

The SIZE command is not in the RFC for FTP and is not included in the
solaris ftp server. RPM fails when it tries to install over the ftp link.
Nortel would like this corrected as they are using solaris extensively.

See bug#'s 50887 and 17346 for more detailed information.


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Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 2001-12-09 17:58:44 UTC

I need some help prioritizing this bug, basically whether rpm-4.0.4 or rpm-4.1
is gonna be the location of the fix. Frank has been very patient so far :-)

The issue is the use of a linux only ftpd SIZE command that
rpm uses to synthesize a Content-Length: field so that
the FTP command channel does not have to be repeatedly
torn down and reopened. If/when I attempt a fix, I will mark
the FTP command channel that has a failing SIZE command
as necessary to be reopened repeatedly.

Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 2001-12-10 04:40:50 UTC

If a customer wants it, it will probably need to be backported to
whatever-they're -running, so it probably is best to do it against 4.0.3/4.0.4
first...

Comment 3 Jeff Johnson 2001-12-10 14:59:19 UTC

*** Bug 50887 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 Paul Nasrat 2005-06-07 20:09:55 UTC

Use of a depsolver such as up2date or yum encouraged for network repos.