[Slackbuilds-users] libev source downloaded by web browser cannot be extracted by tar

[Andrzej Telszewski]

On 29/02/16 21:11, Didier Spaier wrote:
> On 29/02/2016 20:57, Andrzej Telszewski wrote:
>> $ md5sum libev-4.15.tar.gz_seamonkey
>> bd3fe50a18a86f977f91cfc46783f52d  libev-4.15.tar.gz_seamonkey
>>
>> $ md5sum libev-4.15.tar.gz_wget
>> 3a73f247e790e2590c01f3492136ed31  libev-4.15.tar.gz_wget
>>
>> $ tar -xf libev-4.15.tar.gz_seamonkey
>> tar: This does not look like a tar archive
>> tar: Skipping to next header
>> tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
>>
>> $ bsdtar -xf libev-4.15.tar.gz_seamonkey
>>
>> $ tar -xf libev-4.15.tar.gz_wget
>>
>> $ bsdtar -xf libev-4.15.tar.gz_wget
>>
>>
>> Probably not the concern of SBo, but if the source of libev is
>> downloaded using web browser, e.g. SeaMonkey, it cannot be extracted
>> using tar.
>>
>> As can be seen from the commands output above:
>> - MD5 sums are different, depending if the source was downloaded using
>> web browser or wget,
>> - tar is not able to extract the source downloaded using SeaMonkey, but
>> is able to extract source downloaded by wget,
>> - bsdtar can extract source downloaded using SeaMonkey and wget.
>>
>> If using links, the MD5 is the same as for wget.
>>
>> The moral is, don't use GUI tools ;)
>
> You are not alone.
> http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/%5Bannounce%5D-eudev-for-slackware-14-1-is-available-for-testing-purposes-4175505218/page2.html#post5174868
> The browser's behavior can probably be corrected using proper settings
> in about:config or something, but I agree: it's often safer to use
> command line tools.
>

I changed _network.http.accept-encoding_ as you proposed in the post and 
now the download is correct.

Thanks!

> Didier
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Best regards,
Andrzej Telszewski