[vfio-users] Mailing list archives corrupted?

[Hristo Iliev]

On 16.11.2015, at 04:28, Alex Williamson <alex.l.williamson at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Sun, Nov 15, 2015 at 7:56 PM, Dan Ziemba <zman0900 at gmail.com <mailto:zman0900 at gmail.com>> wrote:
> I just tried to download the gzipped archives of the mailing list at 
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/vfio-users/ <https://www.redhat.com/archives/vfio-users/> but none of them seem to be
> valid gzip files.  
> 
> $ ls -l
> total 5056
> -rw-r--r-- 1 dan dan  809855 Nov 15 21:50 2015-August.txt.gz
> -rw-r--r-- 1 dan dan 1128101 Nov 15 18:32 2015-November.txt.gz
> -rw-r--r-- 1 dan dan 1221616 Oct 31 03:53 2015-October.txt.gz
> -rw-r--r-- 1 dan dan 2009662 Sep 30 19:49 2015-September.txt.gz
> $ gunzip *.gz
> 
> gzip: 2015-August.txt.gz: not in gzip format
> 
> gzip: 2015-November.txt.gz: not in gzip format
> 
> gzip: 2015-October.txt.gz: not in gzip format
> 
> gzip: 2015-September.txt.gz: not in gzip format
> 
> For some reason that I do not understand the archive has the first message uncompressed, pre-pended to the rest of the archive compressed.  If you look at the file in xxd you can see the dividing line and salvage the file, for example on the November archive, 'dd if=2015-November.txt.gz skip=115751 bs=1 | zless' recovers it.  I'll send an email to see if anyone can explain what the point of this is and if it can be fixed.  The online archives do work and we're also being mirrored in gmane - http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.linux.vfio.user <http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.linux.vfio.user>  Thanks,
> 
> Alex

I hit the same problem some time ago when trying to import the archives into an email client. Strangely enough, the problem resolved by itself when I later tried from a different computer. Seems like a Mailman problem to me.

Cheers,

Hristo

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