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

[Magnus Therning]

On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 10:16:04AM +0200, Magnus Therning wrote:
> 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?

And now I've confirmed that this un-gzipping doesn't happen on my
private computer at home.  So, what's causing this un-gzipping of the
downloaded repo db, I wonder?

/M

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