Msys2-packages: Ctags package retrieving failed: Maximum file size exceeded

[guoxiao]

$ pacman -S ctags
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...

Packages (1) ctags-5.8-1

Total Download Size:   0.11 MiB
Total Installed Size:  0.26 MiB

:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y
:: Retrieving packages...
error: failed retrieving file 'ctags-5.8-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz' from repo.msys2.org : Maximum file size exceeded
error: failed retrieving file 'ctags-5.8-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz' from downloads.sourceforge.net : Maximum file size exceeded
error: failed retrieving file 'ctags-5.8-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz' from www2.futureware.at : Maximum file size exceeded
warning: failed to retrieve some files
error: failed to commit transaction (download library error)
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

[sw-samuraj]

I have exactly the same error for ctags. Other packages install fine.

[h3xh4wk]

I am facing the same error. How to resolve this one?

[Qiguang]

I have that problem too

[ErichDonGubler]

What seems broken is the download of the PKGBUILD, because for some reason the new link is getting redirected. I've been able to get around this problem by downloading the PKGBUILD and installing manually using makepkg:

pacman -S  binutils make gcc # install depends -- probably could just use `base-devel`
mkdir ctags && cd ctags
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Alexpux/MSYS2-packages/master/ctags/PKGBUILD
makepkg -sri

Tags: @stupidnetizen @sw-samuraj @Qiguang @guoxiao

EDIT: Added @sw-samuraj's suggestion for ensuring build dependencies.

[sw-samuraj]

Thanks @ErichDonGubler, it works!

In case, you are having those two errors:

==> ERROR: Cannot find the strip binary required for object file stripping.

or

==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
    Aborting...
````

you need to install build and compile packages:
```shell
pacman -S  binutils make gcc

[mati865]

@sw-samuraj it should be pacman -S base-devel.

[kutacoder]

Still getting the same issue even after attempting build from PKGBUILD after installing binutils make gcc.

[ErichDonGubler]

@sp0ng3w0rthy: You might want to try downloading the archive yourself and putting it into the same directory as the PKGBUILD -- makepkg should detect that it's already there and just use it.

[kutacoder]

Thank you for the reply @ErichDonGubler, I'll test it the minute I get to work, but I believe the error I made is attempting to run the makepkg without first downloading the ctags archive into the same directory facepalm.

[kutacoder]

After multiple failed builds I finally realized my issue: I've been using ConEmu and the cygwin/msys connector in order to run the MSYS2 shell.
As stated here, the connector actually sets the MSYSTEM variable to MINGW64 , as opposed to setting it to MSYS like the C:\dev\msys64\msys2_shell.cmd script does.

After reading this comment on Sourceforge (by DanAaronGoldman), I realized I should be using the msys2_shell.cmd in order to build using makepkg AND (as kindly stated by @ErichDonGubler ) to download the ctags archive to the same folder as the PKGBUILD file.

Managed to build perfectly, I hope this helps anyone using ConEmu and the cygwin/msys connector and not realizing why this doesn't work.

[guoxiao]

I found if I manually download http://repo.msys2.org/msys/x86_64/ctags-5.8-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz and use pacman -U to install, it works well.

It should be a bug in the file download part of pacman.

Related debug log (by adding --debug to pacman)

debug: url: http://repo.msys2.org/msys/x86_64/ctags-5.8-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
debug: maxsize: 113924
debug: opened tempfile for download: /var/cache/pacman/pkg/ctags-5.8-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz.part (wb)
debug: curl returned error 63 from transfer
error: failed retrieving file 'ctags-5.8-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz' from repo.msys2.org : Maximum file size exceeded

Don't know where the maxsize come from.

[cbrt64]

For whatever reason, the %CSIZE% given in /var/lib/pacman/sync/msys.db//ctags/desc for ctags-5.8-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz is wrong (113924 bytes instead of 126936). Similar discrepancies are affecting some other packages as well, as seen in the other duplicate issues. (ucl just got rebuilt yesterday, fixing this problem for that package.)

pacman -U http://repo.msys2.org/msys/x86_64/ctags-5.8-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz is the easiest workaround i know of, it even downloads the package into pacman's cache.

1025, #1052, #1094 are definitely duplicates of this, #924 is related.

[earnie]

Coming into this quite late (ended up here because of google) but I don't see any mention of needing to ensure the DB is up-to-date via pacman -Sy before attempting the install with pacman -S ctags. And to upgrade you should use pacman -Syu to update all packages.

Now obviously something else was amiss and as a result we have [#1109] but that doesn't negate my caution in the previous paragraph.

[guoxiao]

Should be fixed in #1109. Closing.