Re: tramp (2.2.13.25.2); setting GZIP environment variable breaks tramp

[Michael Albinus]

Francesco Potortì <address@hidden> writes:

Hi Francesco,

> Recently gzip started to emit a warning (on stderr, I believe) saying
> that setting the GZIP env var is deprecated.
>
> I never cared too much about it until tramp stopped working.  After some
> time, I discovered that GZIP was the culprit.
>
> For example, both with the ssh and scp methods, reading a remote file
> works, but writing it back after modification fails.
>
> Maybe tramp could detect GZIP's warning and dtrt

Hmm, I cannot test it locally. My Ubuntu 18.10 carries gzip 1.6, which
doesn't emit such a warning.

Could you please check, whether "gzip -q ..." suppresses such a warning
for you? I would add "-q" then for the gzip calls inside Tramp.

You could also manipulate Tramp and test it. Tweak the constant
tramp-inline-compress-commands accordingly.

Best regards, Michael.