Raku / Raku/whateverable

broken archive

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Dominant language
Raku
Stars
19
Forks
16
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No merged PRs in 30d

Description

seen on blin run

Attempting to fetch 558ef7e49fd539e9b2a8ee0b6adb7763ff9f9ff6…
tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
Broken archive for 558ef7e49fd539e9b2a8ee0b6adb7763ff9f9ff6, removing…

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Research direction

Start with the blin run and the fetch for commit 558ef7e49fd539e9b2a8ee0b6adb7763ff9f9ff6 shown in the report; no source file or test is named. Trace why the downloaded data is rejected as a tar archive, then verify that this case no longer produces the broken-archive failure.

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Assessment

Domain
tooling
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Active
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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