I just pulled "patch-2.6.27-rc1-git2.gz" from kernel.org and it looks fine:
$ file patch-2.6.27-rc1-git2.gz
patch-2.6.27-rc1-git2.gz: gzip compressed data, from Unix, last modified: Thu Jul 31 00:01:03 2008, max compression
$ gunzip patch-2.6.27-rc1-git2.gz
$
Patch retrieved will be named as linux-2.6-snaps.git-94ad374a0751f40d25e22e036c37f7263569d24c. So difference besides the name is that it has tar.gz extension. I shortened the name and tried to gunzip it with followint results:
gzip: linux-2.6.27-rc1-git2.tar.gz: not in gzip format
Quite similar results with wget besides even more terrible file name.
When i tired the file you mentioned (using your link), it downloaded only 600+ bytes of it. Looks like that gitweb link is corrupted. (It is suppsed to be the whole snapshot of linux right, not a patch?)
gitweb seems to interrupt sending a page after some time, this may be a work around for overload -- gitweb is for viewing after all and creates lots of load due to its dynamical nature. at least that is happening with index pages and commit pages as well.
All the git snapshots are .bz2 or .gz archives.
Your software must be corrupting the extension to .tar.gz.
Try renaming the files to .bz2 and use bunzip to open them.
Paste your error message.
Paste your error message.
gunzip gives that "not in
gunzip gives that "not in gzip format",
others something resembling telling that format is not supported.
What does file say?
What does file say? Have you tried looking at the contents of the file?
ehm
for the hole kernel use tar -xzf foo, for the patches gzip -d foo, to just send the patch output to stdout zcat foo
which specific file (and perhaps which mirror)
I just pulled "patch-2.6.27-rc1-git2.gz" from kernel.org and it looks fine:
$ file patch-2.6.27-rc1-git2.gz
patch-2.6.27-rc1-git2.gz: gzip compressed data, from Unix, last modified: Thu Jul 31 00:01:03 2008, max compression
$ gunzip patch-2.6.27-rc1-git2.gz
$
I took that same
I took that same 2.6.27-rc1-git2.tar.gz using gitweb also wget. URL in gitweb is :
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/kyle/linux-2.6-snaps.git;a=sna....
Patch retrieved will be named as linux-2.6-snaps.git-94ad374a0751f40d25e22e036c37f7263569d24c. So difference besides the name is that it has tar.gz extension. I shortened the name and tried to gunzip it with followint results:
gzip: linux-2.6.27-rc1-git2.tar.gz: not in gzip format
Quite similar results with wget besides even more terrible file name.
When i tired the file you
When i tired the file you mentioned (using your link), it downloaded only 600+ bytes of it. Looks like that gitweb link is corrupted. (It is suppsed to be the whole snapshot of linux right, not a patch?)
gitweb seems to
gitweb seems to interrupt sending a page after some time, this may be a work around for overload -- gitweb is for viewing after all and creates lots of load due to its dynamical nature. at least that is happening with index pages and commit pages as well.
All the git snapshots are
All the git snapshots are .bz2 or .gz archives.
Your software must be corrupting the extension to .tar.gz.
Try renaming the files to .bz2 and use bunzip to open them.