625759 – yum is unable to download an rpm of 2.9GB returns negative file size -1286380771

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Bug 625759 - yum is unable to download an rpm of 2.9GB returns negative file size -1286380771

Summary: yum is unable to download an rpm of 2.9GB returns negative file size -128638...

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Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 612409
Alias:	None
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification:	Red Hat
Component:	yum
Sub Component:
Version:	6.0
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Priority:	low
Severity:	medium
Target Milestone:	rc
Target Release:	---
Assignee:	James Antill
QA Contact:	BaseOS QE Security Team
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Blocks:
TreeView+	depends on / blocked

Reported:	2010-08-20 11:28 UTC by Grant Williamson
Modified:	2014-01-21 06:19 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users
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Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Last Closed:	2010-08-20 13:23:06 UTC
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Description Grant Williamson 2010-08-20 11:28:46 UTC

Description of problem:
I created an rpm of a KVM image.
This rpm can be installed locally on machine, however
yum is unable to download and install this large rpm.
yum reports the size of the rpm to be -1286380771, even though the metadata would report the correct size.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
yum-3.2.27-13.el6.noarch
rpm-4.8.0-12.el6.x86_64

How reproducible:
create large rpm i.e. 2.9GB, add to a ftp/file/http yum repo, generate headers
try and install it fails ..

yum install ibm-winxp-kvm-3.01
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit, rhnplugin
This system is not registered with RHN.
RHN support will be disabled.
Setting up Install Process
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package ibm-winxp-kvm-3.01.noarch 0:1-1 set to be updated
--> Finished Dependency Resolution

Dependencies Resolved
Package Arch Version Repository Size

Installing:
ibm-winxp-kvm-3.01 noarch 1-1 kvm -1286380771.0

Transaction Summary

Install 1 Package(s)
Upgrade 0 Package(s)

Total download size: -1286380771
Installed size: -1250594428
Is this ok [y/N]:

Downloading Packages:
ftp://blah/ibm-winxp-kvm-3.01-1-1.noarch.rpm: [Errno 14] Downloaded more than max size for ftp://blah/ibm-winxp-kvm-3.01-1-1.noarch.rpm: 16384 > -1286380771
Trying other mirror.

Error Downloading Packages:
ibm-winxp-kvm-3.01-1-1.noarch: failure: ibm-winxp-kvm-3.01-1-1.noarch.rpm from kvm: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.

Actual results:
File is less that cpio 4gb limit, file will install locally.
Yum download/install fails.

Expected results:
Should download and install.

If I unpack the primary.xml.gz from the repodata I generated.
The size would appear to be correct
<size package="3008586525" installed="3044372868" archive="3044374108"/>

rpm header
Name : ibm-winxp-kvm-3.01 Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version : 1 Vendor: (none)
Release : 1 Build Date: Fri 20 Aug 2010 12:42:15 AM EDT
Install Date: (not installed) Build Host: superrh
Group : Applications/Emulators Source RPM: ibm-winxp-kvm-3.01-1-1.nosrc.rpm
Size : 3044372868 License:

Additional info:
Is there any limit set here?

Comment 2 Grant Williamson 2010-08-20 12:34:16 UTC

I can get the rpm to download with a little hack, with an errors since the
checksum fails since "file size" does not match. But the md5sum is good.

i.e.
gunzip primary.xml.gz
Change the size package/installed/archive to blank
<size package="" installed="" archive=""/>
find the size/sha256 sum of the file and modify the results in repomd.xml
ls -l primary.xml ; sha256sum primary.xml ; gzip primary.xml ; ls -l
primary.xml.gz ; sha256sum primary.xml.gz

yumdownloader ibm-winxp-kvm-3.01
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit, rhnplugin
This system is not registered with RHN.
RHN support will be disabled.
ibm-winxp-kvm-3.01-1-1.noarch.rpm                                              
                                                                          | 2.8
GB     01:16     
ftp://blah/ibm-winxp-kvm-3.01-1-1.noarch.rpm: [Errno -1] Package does not match
intended download. Suggestion: run yum clean metadata
Trying other mirror.
Could not download/verify pkg ibm-winxp-kvm-3.01-1-1.noarch: failure:
ibm-winxp-kvm-3.01-1-1.noarch.rpm from kvm: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.

Something does not seem to parse the size correctly.

Comment 3 James Antill 2010-08-20 13:23:06 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 612409 ***

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