pkg install -forge broke after update

"Thomas D. Dean" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.octave.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I updated to latest hg sources, configure, make, make check, make 
install.  Some warnings, no errors.

octave:1> [v,d]=version()
v = 6.0.90
d = 2020-08-26
octave:2> pkg install -forge control
error: unpack: unarchiving program exited with status: 2

gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
error: called from
     unpack at line 279 column 5
     untar at line 48 column 5
     install at line 93 column 9
     pkg at line 566 column 9

Tom Dean
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