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waynew

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Registered: 2012-05-20

Posts: 39

local repo download failing with unexpected error, also "no such file"

I'm trying to install packages from a USB disk.

I'm pretty sure that pacman is sad because the USB drive in question is FAT32. Or potentially it's because I mounted it with udisksctl?

$ udisksctl mount -b /dev/sda1
mounted /dev/sda1 at /run/media/wayne/ABCD-1234
$ cd /run/media/wayne
$ mkdir arch-pkg
$ cd arch-pkg
$ sudo mkdir /tmp/blankdb
$ sudo pacman -Syw --disable-sandbox --cachedir . base base-devel minetest --dbpath /tmp/blankdb
<a whole lotta output>
:: Proceed with download? [Y/n] y
error: failed to commit transaction (unexpected error)
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

I thought it might be because that drive is fat32 so I tried a different drive that I have formatted Linux/ext4

$ cd /mydrive/arch-pkg
$ df -PTh .
Filesystem     Type   Size  Used Avail  Use%   Mounted on
/dev/sdb1        ext4  20G    5.8G  13G  32%    /wdrive
$ sudo pacman -Syw --disable-sandbox --cachedir . base base-devel minetest --dbpath /tmp/blankdb
<same whole lotta output>
:: Proceed with download? [Y/n]
:: Retrieving packages...
Total <snip>
error: could not open file ./download-30wA6t/gcc-14.2.1+r134+gab884fffe3fc-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst.part: No such file or directory
error: failed to setup a download payload for gcc-14.2.1+r134+gab884fffe3fc-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
warning: failed to retrieve some files
error: failed to commit transaction (failed to retrieve some files)
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

What's going on here? Why won't pacman download files to my local repo?

Though as I write this out I'm pretty sure that it's not just how it's mounted because

$ sudo -s
# mkdir -p /tmp/arch-pkg
# cd /tmp/arch-pkg
# pacman -Syw --disable-sandbox --cachedir . base base-devel  minetest --dbpath /tmp/blankdb

Fails with the same error - no .zst.part file.

waynew

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Registered: 2012-05-20

Posts: 39

Re: local repo download failing with unexpected error, also "no such file"

Well, part of the issue is that I needed `--cachedir $PWD` -- apparently that's required to be an absolute directory, per `man pacman`

stanczew

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Registered: 2021-03-02

Posts: 91

Re: local repo download failing with unexpected error, also "no such file"

Pacman tries to download packages into the current directory, but since FAT32 doesn't support POSIX file ownership, you're probably running into this issue:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=299473