misc/186822: pkg bootstrap code fails when connecting to a server that provides a chunked response

Tom Prince tom.prince at hybridcluster.com
Sun Feb 16 18:40:01 UTC 2014


>Number:         186822
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       pkg bootstrap code fails when connecting to a server that provides a chunked response
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
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>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Feb 16 18:40:00 UTC 2014
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>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Tom Prince
>Release:        
>Organization:
HybridLogic
>Environment:
>Description:
If the provided PACKAGESITE is a server that provides a chunked response for /Latest/pkg.txz then the bootstrap code will ignore the response body and then fail to extract pkg-static from the empty archive.

(st.size is -1 with chunked so 
236 	while (done < st.size) {
is always false)
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>Fix:


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