Manpage gzips not extracting properly?

[axb]

Hi all,

The man pages under 'Releases' here: https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi/help.html are not extracting.

tar -xvf FreeBSD_11.1-RELEASE.tgz
..
FreeBSD-11.1-RELEASE/man/man4/lpbb.4.gz
tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

I tried 12-current and 11.0/11.1

 

[SirDice]

They're compressed; tar -zxvf <file>

 

[axb]

Same problem. I think GNU tar (which I'm using) automatically detects compression.

 

[k.jacker]

If you're on Linux and just want to read FreeBSD manpages you can read them online as well...
https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi

 

[axb]

I'd like to download them.

 

[ljboiler]

I have to agree with axb; it looks like the downloader function of the man pages is broken, and is truncating the tar file...
Pulling the same "version" of the FreeBSD man page bundle down via fetch is giving different size files every time I try it.

 

[ShelLuser]

The OP is right, it seems the archives are corrupted. I can reproduce this on both FreeBSD as well as Windows.

 

[SirDice]

I tried a few files from my Windows machine at work, they all seem to decompress fine with WinRAR. I'll try a few more from my FreeBSD machines at home.

Edit: That seems to work too. Maybe a dodgy mirror?

 

[axb]

Works now! Thanks!