That is very surprising!

yum has supported bz2 files forever......

Can you send me the bug info so I can join the watch list?

Pat

On 06/03/2013 03:01 PM, Paul Robert Marino wrote:
> Resolved sort of.
>
> I just figured out whats causing it its the updateinfo.bz2 file apparently 
> spacewalk-repo-sync doesn't know how this file in bz2 format.
> Ill file a bug report with spacewalk
>
>
> On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 11:58 AM, Pat Riehecky <[log in to unmask] 
> <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
>
>     I believe I've just reconfigured apache to not compress .gz/.bz2 files
>     again.  They joy of adding compression by encoding type rather than
>     filename.
>
>     Pat
>
>
>     On 05/30/2013 05:13 AM, Ansgar Hockmann-Stolle wrote:
>
>         Maybe an issue with the web server?
>
>         Downloading the file with firefox and wget will give different files:
>
>         216856 May 30 11:38 firefox/comps-sl6-x86_64.xml.gz
>         216991 Mar 22 19:10 wget/comps-sl6-x86_64.xml.gz
>
>         The Apache is zipping the file on the fly again, but firefox does
>         not unzip it right:
>
>         firefox/comps-sl6-x86_64.xml:    gzip compressed data, from Unix,
>         max compression
>         firefox/comps-sl6-x86_64.xml.gz: gzip compressed data, from Unix
>         wget/comps-sl6-x86_64.xml:       XML  document text
>         wget/comps-sl6-x86_64.xml.gz:    gzip compressed data, from Unix,
>         max compression
>
>         firefox/comps-sl6-x86_64.xml is the original zipped file!
>
>         Sniffing while downloading with firefox:
>
>             GET
>             /linux/scientific/6.4/x86_64/os/repodata/comps-sl6-x86_64.xml.gz
>             HTTP/1.1
>             Host: ftp.scientificlinux.org <http://ftp.scientificlinux.org>
>             User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:21.0)
>             Gecko/20100101 Firefox/21.0
>             Accept:
>             text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
>             Accept-Language: de-de,de;q=0.8,en-us;q=0.5,en;q=0.3
>             Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
>             Referer:
>             http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.4/x86_64/os/repodata/
>             Connection: keep-alive
>             Pragma: no-cache
>             Cache-Control: no-cache
>
>             HTTP/1.1 200 OK
>             Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 09:38:04 GMT
>             Server: Apache
>             Last-Modified: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 18:10:26 GMT
>             ETag: "3fa15b6f-34f9f-4d8875e974880"
>             Accept-Ranges: bytes
>             Vary: Accept-Encoding
>             Content-Encoding: gzip
>             Content-Security-Policy: default-src 'self'; style-src 'self'
>             unsafe-inline;
>             X-Content-Security-Policy: allow 'self'; default-src 'self';
>             style-src 'self' unsafe-inline;
>             Keep-Alive: timeout=3, max=200
>             Connection: Keep-Alive
>             Transfer-Encoding: chunked
>             Content-Type: application/x-gzip
>
>             1faa
>
>         [...]
>
>         Sniffing while downloading with wget:
>
>             GET
>             /linux/scientific/6.4/x86_64/os/repodata/comps-sl6-x86_64.xml.gz
>             HTTP/1.1
>             User-Agent: Wget/ (linux-gnu)
>             Accept: */*
>             Host: ftp.scientificlinux.org <http://ftp.scientificlinux.org>
>             Connection: Keep-Alive
>
>             HTTP/1.1 200 OK
>             Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 09:49:27 GMT
>             Server: Apache
>             Last-Modified: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 18:10:26 GMT
>             ETag: "3fa15b6f-34f9f-4d8875e974880"
>             Accept-Ranges: bytes
>             Content-Length: 216991
>             Vary: Accept-Encoding
>             Content-Security-Policy: default-src 'self'; style-src 'self'
>             unsafe-inline;
>             X-Content-Security-Policy: allow 'self'; default-src 'self';
>             style-src 'self' unsafe-inline;
>             Keep-Alive: timeout=3, max=200
>             Connection: Keep-Alive
>             Content-Type: application/x-gzip
>
>             ^_213^H^@^@^@^@^@^B^C254Z333s333֙^?357_qV/j247U330vvgvv\v353244333d266323355244
>
>         [...]
>
>         I think apache should be configured not to zip already zipped files.
>
>         Ciao
>             Ansgar
>
>
>         Am 28.05.2013 17:25, schrieb Pat Riehecky:
>
>             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]>
>                 <mailto:[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/
>
>
>
>