fisher: Package installation fails on OpenBSD

I managed to install fisher on my OpenBSD box by downloading the function w/ curl as recommended. fisher itself works, but this happens when I try installing any package:

$ fisher add jethrokuan/z
fetching https://codeload.github.com/jethrokuan/z/tar.gz/master
cannot install github.com/jethrokuan/z -- is this a valid package?
done in 1.00s

Thank you for your help in advance!

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State: closed
Created 6 years ago
Comments: 16 (10 by maintainers)

Commits related to this issue

3.2.0 - Optimize startup path #494 - Cuts fisher-related startup time to roughly 25ms - Reduce legacy fish support (~~>=2.0~~ >=2.1) - Read fishfile from `$fisher_path` instead of `$fish_config` ... — committed to jorgebucaran/fisher by jorgebucaran 6 years ago

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@bertalanp99 @kelp 39e9f3f34079a1705f4580fa232fe15d10b632c0 🎉

jorgebucaran on Jan 1, 2019

@bertalanp99 How can I get my hands on an OpenBSD box? Could you help with that?

I just ran into this same issue and had tracked it down to OpenBSD tar lacking --strip-components, and only found this GitHub issue while Googling alternatives… Wish I’d found this issue an hour sooner, would have saved myself the debugging.

Anyway, I have an OpenBSD 6.4 system running on Google Cloud and could give you a shell on it for testing. Or I could help you get one up and running. IIRC, I originally followed some variation on this to make it work: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=138757967321855&w=2

kelp on Nov 13, 2018