Re: GNU Parallel Bug Reports Instillation problems

[William Bader]

> From: address@hidden
> Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2014 03:08:03 +0200
> Subject: Re: GNU Parallel Bug Reports Instillation problems
> To: address@hidden
> CC: address@hidden
>
> It seems your mirror is broken (mine works fine), so we need to figure
> out which mirror you use. So start by going to:
> http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/parallel on the machine you want to install
> on and post which URL you are being redirected to.
>
> > laptop37 ~/Downloads$ gpg --with-fingerprint parallel-20140622.tar.bz2.sig
>
> Did you notice that you can simply do this to check the signature:
>
> bash parallel-20140622.tar.bz2.sig
>
> /Ole

I am redirected to http://ftp.rediris.es/mirror/GNU/gnu/parallel/  

I am in Spain, so that is probably the closest mirror.

I tried it again, and it went to http://217.160.6.133/Asturies/GNU/gnu/parallel/ and then to http://ftp.gul.es/gnu/ftp.gnu.org/gnu/parallel/

I tried downloading from each of those three mirrors, and the files were identical to the ones from the primary site.

I didn't realize that I could just run the sig through bash.  I looked now, and I see the script at the start of the file.

laptop37 ~/Downloads$ bash parallel-20140622.tar.bz2.sig 

gpg: Signature made Mon 23 Jun 2014 03:27:19 AM CEST using RSA key ID 88888888

gpg: Good signature from "Ole Tange <address@hidden>"

gpg:                 aka "Ole Tange <address@hidden>"

gpg:                 aka "[jpeg image of size 6001]"

gpg: WARNING: This key is not certified with a trusted signature!

gpg:          There is no indication that the signature belongs to the owner.

Primary key fingerprint: CDA0 1A42 08C4 F745 0610  7E7B D1AB 4516 8888 8888

nslookup ftpmirror.gnu.org gives 140.186.70.73 dl.savannah.gnu.org

nslookup ftp.rediris.es gives 130.206.1.5 zeppo.rediris.es

nslookup ftp.gul.es gives 163.117.156.54

nslookup pi.dk gives 188.138.2.24

I just ran "curl pi.dk/3/ | bash" several times from empty directories.  Sometimes it worked, sometimes it hung running "curl -L http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/parallel/parallel-20140622.tar.bz2" and sometimes it failed with "The signature on parallel-20140622.tar.bz2 is wrong. This may indicate that a criminal has changed the code."

I think that you are right that the problem is a bad mirror server.

William