[issue299] consistently inconsistent 'download' or 'reinstall' behavior

[Jon at Labix Tracker]

New submission from Jon <jnelson-smartpm at jamponi.net>:

A little background: 

I flubbed some things up and wanted to reinstall some packages.
So I made a list of those packages and went:

smart reinstall pkg1 pkg2 pkg3

and much to my surprise smart said "pkg1 not available for downloading"

That's strange, I said. The package was 'cracklib'.
I removed pkg1 from the list and repeated and smart said the same thing about
other packages, packages I *knew* it could download.

Then I began to introduce 'download' into things. I noticed that I got different
results using 'download' in --shell versus issuing 'download' as a command.

Then things got weird.

What follows is a transcript wherein 'smart download' behaves differently for no
apparent reason:

linux-lel4:~ # rm cracklib-2.8.9-20.i586.rpm
linux-lel4:~ # smart download cracklib
Loading cache...
Updating cache...               ######################################## [100%]

Fetching packages...
-> http://ftp.ale.org/pub/mirrors/opensuse/.../cracklib-2.8.9-20.i586.rpm
cracklib-2.8.9-20.i586.rpm      ######################################## [100%]


linux-lel4:~ # rm cracklib-2.8.9-20.i586.rpm
linux-lel4:~ # rpm -Uvh --force cracklib-2.8.9-20.i586.rpm
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
   1:cracklib               ########################################### [100%]
linux-lel4:~ # rm cracklib-2.8.9-20.i586.rpm
linux-lel4:~ # smart download cracklib
Loading cache...
Updating cache...               ######################################## [100%]

error: cracklib-2.8.9-20 at i586 is not available for downloading
Saving cache...

linux-lel4:~ # smart download cracklib
Loading cache...
Updating cache...               ######################################## [100%]

Fetching packages...
-> http://ftp.ale.org/pub/mirrors/opensuse/.../cracklib-2.8.9-20.i586.rpm
cracklib-2.8.9-20.i586.rpm      ######################################## [100%]


linux-lel4:~ # rm cracklib-2.8.9-20.i586.rpm
linux-lel4:~ # smart reinstall cracklib
Loading cache...
Updating cache...               ######################################## [100%]

error: 'cracklib-2.8.9-20 at i586' is not available for reinstallation

linux-lel4:~ #


Weird, eh? This caused me an hour or more of headache because 'reinstall'
couldn't be made to work (I suspect caused by the same underlying issue) and
only a large number of 'download' invocations /eventually/ got me everything I
needed.

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messages: 1130
nosy: jon
priority: bug
project: smart
status: unread
title: consistently inconsistent 'download' or 'reinstall' behavior

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