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+;; https://github.com/dimitri/el-get/issues/559
+;;
+;; Testing the github-tar and github-zip methods
+
+(let ((debug-on-error t)
+      ;; (el-get-byte-compile nil)
+      (el-get-verbose t)
+      (el-get-sources
+       '((:name indirect-region-http-tar
+                :type http-tar
+                :options ("xzf")
+                :description "Act like indirect buffer for region."
+                :url "https://github.com/renard/indirect-region/tarball/master")
+         (:name indirect-region-tar
+                :type github-tar
+                :description "Act like indirect buffer for region."
+                :pkgname "renard/indirect-region")
+         (:name indirect-region-zip
+                :type github-zip
+                :description "Act like indirect buffer for region."
+                :pkgname "renard/indirect-region"))))
+  (require 'el-get)
+  ;; Install a http-tar recipe
+  (el-get 'sync 'indirect-region-http-tar)
+  ;; Install a github-tar recipe
+  (el-get 'sync 'indirect-region-tar)
+  ;; Install a github-zip recipe
+  (el-get 'sync 'indirect-region-zip)
+
+  (condition-case err
+      (progn
+        ;; Should fail
+        (let ((el-get-sources
+               '((:name broken-pkg
+                        :type github-tar))))
+          (el-get 'sync 'broken-pkg))
+        (signal 'test-failure
+                '("The package\"broken-pkg\" should have caused an error, but it didn't.")))
+    (error (message "Installing \"broken-pkg\" failed as expected. The error message was: %S" err))))