Bug#502785: file-roller: Opening files in cpio archives produces empty files

[Michael Rasmussen]

Hi Emilio,

On Tue, 21 Oct 2008 20:11:42 +0200
Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 
> Do you have a (simple) way to make an archive which has the issue?
> 
The simplest way is to grab claws-mail and claws-mail-extra-plugins
from launchpad: http://ppa.launchpad.net/claws-mail/ubuntu/

I am the one developing the archiver plugin for claws-mail which is
based on libarchive-dev, which can be downloaded from ubuntu main
repository.

The weird thing is that using plain old cpio (cpio -id
[--no-absolute-filenames] < some_archive.cpio) does not give any
problems at all. Also using find some_dir -print | bsdcpio -o -z >
foo.cpio.gz and try opening such and archive in file-roller makes
file-roller semi crash.

My plugin always adds files with absolute filenames so it could be this
detail that confuses file-roller?

If you want me to make any kinds of tests or perhaps a smaller code
example then please let me know.

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Michael Rasmussen

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