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schmodd

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Registered: 2015-02-12

Posts: 35

[SOLVED] pacmatic gzip: stdin: not in gzip format

hi,
since yesterday I get the following to see after doing "pacmatic -Syu":

gzip: stdin: not in gzip format

gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
Recent ML chatter:
:: Synchronisiere Paketdatenbanken...
 core ist aktuell
 extra ist aktuell
 community ist aktuell
:: Starte vollständige Systemaktualisierung...
 Es gibt nichts zu tun
No pacnew files to update.

Using pacman doesnt show anything like the above "gzip: stdin: not in gzip format" (pacman works just fine). 
Anyone knows how to solve this? I don't really know how pacmatic works internally.

Reinstalling pacmatic didnt solve the issue.

Edit:
I also noticed that "pacman -Si" doesnt work for packages which aren't installed:

pacman -Si xfce4
Fehler: Paket 'xfce4' wurde nicht gefunden 

Last edited by schmodd (2015-03-02 08:38:39)

nullified

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From: Massachusetts, USA

Registered: 2013-12-09

Posts: 468

Re: [SOLVED] pacmatic gzip: stdin: not in gzip format

Well, it's trying to curl the mailing list gzipped text file from March, but that file doesn't exist yet. If you run just

pacmatic

you'll see that mail_list is set to the 2015-March url.

One possible fix is to set the mail_list environment variable to "https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/a … ary.txt.gz"

I thought this would work and tried it myself. After doing so I ran pacmatic again and confirmed that mail_list was set to the above url that I know exists. But I still get the same error. I'm not sure why I still get the error, hopefully someone can shed some more light. At least you have a general idea of what's going on now.

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schmodd

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Registered: 2015-02-12

Posts: 35

Re: [SOLVED] pacmatic gzip: stdin: not in gzip format

Thank you for clarifying the issue.
I guess I will ignore the message until there is a mail list for the current month!

prelog

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Registered: 2012-09-08

Posts: 7

Re: [SOLVED] pacmatic gzip: stdin: not in gzip format

I ran in to the same problem. I’ve proposed a patch for pacmatic that works around a missing mail archive and created a pull request for the author. We’ll see if it gets accepted.

nullified

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From: Massachusetts, USA

Registered: 2013-12-09

Posts: 468

Re: [SOLVED] pacmatic gzip: stdin: not in gzip format

Thanks prelog! I was going to put in a bug report, I'm sure the author would rather a pull request.

If I understand your commit correctly, pacmatic will remain silent if there is no mailing list returned for the month? Would it be possible instead to return the previous month?

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"We may say most aptly, that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard-loom weaves flowers and leaves." - Ada Lovelace