Bad package on mirrors

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Hello,
Making a local mirror of fedora 32 releases Everything, and there’s a package which fail basic rpm checks.
sagemath-doc-en-9.0-2.fc32.x86_64.rpm: headerRead failed: hdr data: BAD, no. of bytes(45864464) out of range
I tried several source mirrors, and all of them fail on this rpm.

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I’ve downloaded the package from koji and from a couple of mirrors in Europe. I ran createrepo_c, rpm2cpio and rpmlint on all of them, there was no problem. What exactly are you doing?

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I’m just using reposync to get a local mirror for my internal network. I also just did curl from a few mirrors and rpm -K, fails every time.

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With the package from koji:

$ rpm -K sagemath-doc-en-9.0-2.fc32.x86_64.rpm 
sagemath-doc-en-9.0-2.fc32.x86_64.rpm: digests signatures OK
$ rpm --version
RPM version 4.15.1

Checking the sha256 checksum against what’s in repodata (primary.xml):

$ cat 54d993893d048deb40a73064667093159c32942c59ec7664c0149ba55c8da883-primary.xml | grep -A 5 sagemath-doc-en | grep checksum
  <checksum type="sha256" pkgid="YES">d84da9f47c9282fa398f7956324fd48afbfd93d35ab259619e331a844feb717a</checksum>

$ sha256sum sagemath-doc-en-9.0-2.fc32.x86_64.rpm 
d84da9f47c9282fa398f7956324fd48afbfd93d35ab259619e331a844feb717a  ./sagemath-doc-en-9.0-2.fc32.x86_64.rpm

I think your problem lies elsewhere.

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Wow, that is really weird… okay it does seem to be something local.

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Well, there it is. The mirror server was on Cent 7.2 rpm 4.11.3-17.el7. I got another system Cent 7.7 rpm 4.11.3-35.el7 which didn’t have the problem. I updated the mirror server and poof, error gone.
That’s pretty odd though that just this one package tripped up the older rpm version. Oh well…

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I’ve occasionally seen something similar. At those times, the file on the mirror was for some reason incorrect, but reposync believed in it and didn’t update it. Possibly a failed download the first time.

Removing the file on the mirror caused a new download in these cases. It forced reposync to redownload the packages.

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