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When I run less on the file, it show the text as expected.
Spacewalk is not really my area of expertise.... is your Spacewalk server
fully updated?
Pat
On 05/28/2013 10:16 AM, Paul Robert Marino wrote:
> I downloaded it with wget and used the less command on it.
> sure enough when i use cat on it it returns binary data but it still doesn't
> explain why this only happens with scientific Linux repos. Im wondering if
> its because there is both a comps-sl6-x86_64.xml.gz and a
> comps-sl6-x86_64.xml file in the repo. or if spacewalk is complaining about
> an other file the error is somewhat vague the only reason I thought the
> comps file might be the issue is because its mentioned right before the error.
>
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> On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 10:31 AM, Pat Riehecky <[log in to unmask]
> <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
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> On 05/28/2013 09:19 AM, Paul Robert Marino wrote:
>> Hello
>> I have been having issues with spacewalk and Scientific Linux 6.4 and 6
>> rolling repos
>> after investigation I found 2 errors
>> first
>> "
>> Repo http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.4/x86_64/os/ has
>> comps file comps-sl6-x86_64.xml.gz.
>> ERROR: Not a gzipped file
>> "
>>
>> The second is spacewalk 1.8 doesn't handle the error gracefully but
>> version 1.9 does.
>> note version 1.8 does not produce the "ERROR: Not a gzipped file"
>> instead it does a trace back about an unknown error code.
>>
>> Ive checked
>> http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.4/x86_64/os/repodata/comps-sl6-x86_64.xml.gz
>> and been able to confirm that indeed it is not gziped this should be
>> corrected in whatever script is generating it.
>>
>> Thank You
>> Paul Robert Marino
>
> Thanks for the report,
>
> The comps.xml files for SL6.4 were compressed with zopfli in gzip
> compatibility mode. This resulted in a 11% size savings on my limited
> testing.
>
> They decompress correctly with gzip (just tested again)
>
> $ gzip -dc comps-sl6-x86_64.xml.gz |wc -l
> 16830
>
> and they are correctly identified by 'file' as being gzip compressed data.
>
> $ file comps-sl6-x86_64.xml.gz
> comps-sl6-x86_64.xml.gz: gzip compressed data, from Unix, max compression
>
> How did you check the comps-sl6-x86_64.xml.gz file that it reported as a
> non-gzip file?
>
> Pat
>
> --
> Pat Riehecky
>
> Scientific Linux developer
> http://www.scientificlinux.org/
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>
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Pat Riehecky
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