Re: individual patches are doubly gzipped?

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 10:36:59AM +0200, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> 
> Hi Thomas,
> 
> From http://invisible-mirror.net/archives/ncurses/6.2/ I've downloaded the
> latest individual patch:
>   
> http://invisible-mirror.net/archives/ncurses/6.2/ncurses-6.2-20200822.patch.gz
> plus its .asc file.  But when I run 'gpg --verify nc*.asc', it says:
> 
>   gpg: BAD signature from "Thomas Dickey [...]
> 
> It results that I have to gunzip the patch.gz file (which results in a binary
> file), rename the result to patch.gz, and then 'gpg --verify' will succeed.
> Then I have to run gunzip again on the renamed patch thing to get the actual
> textual patch file.
> 
> Is this double gzipping of these patch files intentional?  If yes, maybe

no - it's a problem with the server versus some browsers.
iirc, you're the second person to comment on it this year.

(this has been an occasional problem with both of my websites for
the past few years - it would be nice to know the cause, but since
they're hosted sites, I don't have access to the logs to pinpoint it).

fwiw, it downloads properly with lynx :-)
 
> (This README could also say that it is more economical to download the
> dev-patches.zip archive instead, to get all the patches at once, and to
> throw away the first patch in the set because it is meant for the preceding
> version of ncurses.)

I suppose so - but the place to start probably would be the FAQ:

https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses.faq.html#where_patches

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>
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