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. > > > > On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 10:31 AM, Pat Riehecky <[log in to unmask] > <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote: > > 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/ > > -- Pat Riehecky Scientific Linux developer http://www.scientificlinux.org/