>
> That's not the error you are after.  Keep going.  (You get this
> because you have epg installed, whereas I don't.)
>

FYI, the melpa issue is fixed. But evaluating the below in "emacs -Q"
recreates the same "end of file" error.

(progn
  (setq package-archives '(("melpa-fake" . "
https://gist.githubusercontent.com/kaushalmodi/0603d601d84fc3282a34f08d3fe75f30/raw/597a359fba08dac61ff20e1ece6437b406a5a622/
")))
  (call-interactively #'list-packages))

I basically took the valid archive-contents file and truncated few
characters from the end of it:
https://gist.githubusercontent.com/kaushalmodi/0603d601d84fc3282a34f08d3fe75f30/raw/597a359fba08dac61ff20e1ece6437b406a5a622/archive-contents

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