Bug 66395

Summary: rpm query via FTP fails
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Binand Sethumadhavan <binand>
Component: rpmAssignee: Jeff Johnson <jbj>
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Description Binand Sethumadhavan 2002-06-09 22:56:12 UTC 
Description of Problem:

rpm query via FTP fails on RedHat 7.2 (and possibly others).

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

rpm version: 4.0.3-1.03

How Reproducible:

Always

Steps to Reproduce:

trying to query (didn't try to install) an RPM via FTP, I get this:

binand@binand[~]:(8) rpm -qp -vv 
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/redhat-7.3-en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/fetchmail-5.9.0-5.i386.rpm
D: logging into ftp.redhat.com as ftp, pw (username)
error: open of 
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/redhat-7.3-en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/fetchmail-5.9.0-5.i386.rpm 
failed: Success

Whereas:
lftp ftp.redhat.com:/pub/redhat/redhat-7.3-en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS> ls 
fetchmail-5.9.0-5.i386.rpm
-rw-r--r--    1 19837    19837      429566 Apr 17 04:19 
fetchmail-5.9.0-5.i386.rpm

Actual Results:

Though other FTP clients succeed in getting the file (I tried wget/lftp), rpm's
internal FTP handling failed.

Expected Results:

It should have succeeded :)

Additional Information:

Default installation of RedHat 7.2, behind an ipchains SNAT gateway on a 
private network. The man page of RPM mentions FTP transfers are always PASV, 
so this shouldn't be an issue.
Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 2002-06-10 09:12:20 UTC 
This problem has been fixed since Red Hat 7.2
was released. Try rpm-4.0.4 packages from Red Hat
7.3.