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bug #42520: Color-theme failing to install with el-get due to doubly compressed archive file

Submitter:  Lefteris Karapetsas <lefteris>
Submitted:  Sat 07 Jun 2014 11:58:38 AM UTC
   
 
Category:  Installation Severity:  3 - Normal
Item Group:  Installation problem Status:  None
Assigned to:  None Open/Closed:  Open
Reproducibility:  Every Time
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Use el-get from https://github.com/dimitri/el-get to install color-theme.

Expected result: Color-theme should be installed
Actual result:

tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors

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Sat 07 Jun 2014 10:30:02 PM UTC, comment #1: 

This issue has been solved, and it was after all an issue with el-get's way of retrieving the tarball.

Details for the curious here:
https://github.com/dimitri/el-get/issues/1784

This is not an issue for color-theme. It can be safely closed.

Lefteris Karapetsas <lefteris>
Sat 07 Jun 2014 11:58:38 AM UTC, original submission:  

I am not sure if this qualifies as a bug, but since I could not follow the mailing list link from the color theme website I am posting this here.

color-theme-6-6.0.tar.gz from http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/color-theme/ is the file that is utilized by the el-get recipe.

Recently somehow it has been altered into being a doubly compressed archive file.

tar xvf color-theme-6-6.0.tar.gz does not work but returns:
tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors

On the contrary if you execute
gunzip color-theme-6-6.0.tar.gz
tar xvf color-theme-6-6.0.tar

The untarring will work.

tar zxvf color-theme-6-6.0.tar.gz also does not work.

The only explanation is that someone has doubly compressed the archive.

Since this is breaking all installations (like el-get) that rely on untarring the archive by using the tar command can you try and upload a normally archived file?

Thank you

Lefteris Karapetsas <lefteris>

 

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