[arch-general] pacman-key complaining, but what to do about it?

[Magnus Therning]

On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 9:32 AM, Magnus Therning <magnus at therning.org> wrote:
> On a newly set up system I've added the [haskell-core] repo [1], but
> get stuck with the following message from `pacman`:
>
> ~~~~
> % sudo pacman -Syy
> error: haskell-testing: signature from "ArchHaskell (Magnus Therning)
> <magnus at therning.org>" is invalid
> :: Synchronising package databases...
>  core                                                    108.2 KiB
> 1335K/s 00:00 [##############################################] 100%
>  haskell-testing.sig                                      96.0   B
> 0.00B/s 00:00 [##############################################] 100%
> error: haskell-testing: signature from "ArchHaskell (Magnus Therning)
> <magnus at therning.org>" is invalid
> error: failed to update haskell-testing (invalid or corrupted database
> (PGP signature))
>  extra                                                  1565.7 KiB
> 1947K/s 00:01 [##############################################] 100%
>  community                                                 2.1 MiB
> 1735K/s 00:01 [##############################################] 100%
>  multilib                                                115.3 KiB
> 1746K/s 00:00 [##############################################] 100%
> error: database 'haskell-testing' is not valid (invalid or corrupted
> database (PGP signature))
> ~~~~
>
> I've read [2] and verified (to the best of my ability) that I have
> correct time settings.  I've also tried resetting the keys, but that
> doesn't improve the situation either.
>
> What else could it be?  How do I find out?  What can I do about it?

I think I've found the reason for it:

~~~~
community.db:       gzip compressed data, last modified: Wed Apr  2
04:23:21 2014, from Unix
core.db:            gzip compressed data, last modified: Tue Apr  1
19:08:44 2014, from Unix
extra.db:           gzip compressed data, last modified: Wed Apr  2
01:09:14 2014, from Unix
haskell-testing.db: POSIX tar archive
multilib.db:        gzip compressed data, last modified: Wed Apr  2
05:12:37 2014, from Unix
~~~~

Where and why would un-gzipping strike like this?

/M

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