Do not continuously try to open an invalid database - pacman

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author	Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>	2018-01-09 22:00:46 +1000
committer	Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>	2018-01-10 09:53:40 +1000
commit	59b6fdeee1722a58d1599bcbd1e2c0fc33debc99 (patch)
tree	ce3548645f807d907c8b3aca433792d20a158501 /doc
parent	24ab8717d459c07c51f47b7b66736de17ca23e9e (diff)

Do not continuously try to open an invalid database

If you manage to download a bad database (e.g. an html file when behind a proxy or with a badly configured webserver), pacman makes sure you know about it. Here is some example output: error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/extra.db: Unrecognized archive format error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/extra.db: Unrecognized archive format error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/extra.db: Unrecognized archive format error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/extra.db: Unrecognized archive format error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/extra.db: Unrecognized archive format error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/extra.db: Unrecognized archive format error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/extra.db: Unrecognized archive format error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/extra.db: Unrecognized archive format error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/extra.db: Unrecognized archive format error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/extra.db: Unrecognized archive format error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/extra.db: Unrecognized archive format error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/extra.db: Unrecognized archive format error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/extra.db: Unrecognized archive format error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/extra.db: Unrecognized archive format error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/extra.db: Unrecognized archive format error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/extra.db: Unrecognized archive format error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/extra.db: Unrecognized archive format error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/extra.db: Unrecognized archive format error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/extra.db: Unrecognized archive format error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/extra.db: Unrecognized archive format error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/extra.db: Unrecognized archive format error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/extra.db: Unrecognized archive format error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/extra.db: Unrecognized archive format error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/extra.db: Unrecognized archive format I don't know how many times that gets printed because it goes beyond my scrollback buffer. Flag a database that we can "open" and "fstat" but not read from as invalid to avoid this. Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>

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