[ESS] ess-17.11-tgz is not compressed

[Neil Shephard]

Hi,

I've only just caught up on the update to ess-17.11 and went to install it
using the Gentoo Linux package management system portage.

It complained that the ess-17.11.tgz was not a compressed archive and this
appears to be true, its just a plain tar-ball.

This means that when portage trys to unpack it based on the file extension
'.tgz' it tries to uncompress it, which fails.

For now I've change the ebuild (the scripts which install programmes under
Gentoo/Linux) to use the ess-17.11.zip but thought this worth reporting.  I
include below downloading the ess-17.11.tgz and attempting to
unzip/uncompress manually, what finally worked was renaming to
ess-17.11.tar and untar the archive.

Details of this are also on Gentoo Buzilla at https://bugs.gentoo.org/639752

Regards,

Neil

 ~/tmp/ess $ wget http://ess.r-project.org/downloads/ess/ess-17.11.tgz
--2017-12-05 08:12:09--
http://ess.r-project.org/downloads/ess/ess-17.11.tgz
Resolving ess.r-project.org... 129.132.119.195
Connecting to ess.r-project.org|129.132.119.195|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 3275703 (3.1M) [application/x-tar]
Saving to: ‘ess-17.11.tgz’

ess-17.11.tgz
100%[===========================================================================================>]
 3.12M  6.30MB/s    in 0.5s

2017-12-05 08:12:09 (6.30 MB/s) - ‘ess-17.11.tgz’ saved [8898560]

 ~/tmp/ess $ gunzip ess-17.11.tgz

gzip: ess-17.11.tgz: not in gzip format
 ~/tmp/ess $ tar xzvf ess-17.11.tgz

gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

 ~/tmp/ess $ mv ess-17.11.tgz ess-17.11.tar
 ~/tmp/ess $ tar xvf ess-17.11.tar
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