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

Emilio Pozuelo Monfort pochu at ubuntu.com
Thu Oct 23 10:36:53 UTC 2008


Michael Rasmussen wrote:
> 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.

Could you forward this upstream [1]? I'd do that but as I don't know libarchive,
claws and your code it would be easier if you could do it and provide
information to upstream if that's required.

Don't forget to add a (small) archive which has the issue with file-roller but
works with cpio.

BTW, I tested with 2.24.0 when you reported the bug and it still had the issue.

Cheers,
Emilio

[1] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=file-roller






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