Re: pkg install -forge broke after update

"Dmitri A. Sergatskov" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.octave.general
Message-ID <CAO+XyQ+0XfCOUs3xRDBHBNtJRoUh99Nxg-4tB0NRaPbc6KqkmQ@mail.gmail.com>
Try download packages manually from

https://sourceforge.net/projects/octave/files/Octave%20Forge%20Packages/Individual%20Package%20Releases/

On Tue, Sep 1, 2020 at 12:02 AM Dmitri A. Sergatskov <[email protected]>
wrote:

> sourseforge appears to be done. The "tar.gz" file is a an html file that
> says:
> <html><head>
> <title>SourceForge</title>
> <!-- <script src="/js/jquery.com/jquery-1.11.0.min.js"></script> -->
> <script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.11.0.min.js"></script>
> <script src="https://sourceforge.net/js/mirrors.js"></script>
> <script src="/js/sf.js"></script>
> <script>
> var DR_loc = DR_parse_hash_url();
> if (DR_loc) {
>     DR_sf_main(DR_loc);
> } else {
>     window.location.href = 'https://sourceforge.net/home.html';
> }
> </script>
> <meta name="description" content="Free, secure and fast downloads from the
> largest Open Source applications and software directory - SourceForge.net"/>
> </head><body>
> <noscript>
> We're sorry -- the Sourceforge site is currently in Disaster Recovery
> mode.  Please check back later.
> </noscript>
> </body></html>
>
> On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 11:59 PM Thomas D. Dean <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> 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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