[9.0-RC3] tar xf with zip archive is broken

[Martin Matuska]

On 20.12.2011 16:41, Patrick Lamaiziere wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Looks like tar -xf with zip archive is broken on 9.0. It creates the
> directories but files are empty.
>
> See with nagios-checker firefox plugin (.xpi which is a zip file)
> http://code.google.com/p/nagioschecker/downloads/detail?name=nagioschecker-0.16.xpi&can=2&q=
>
> total 20
> drwxr-xr-x   4 patrick  patrick   6 20 déc 16:35 ./
> drwxr-xr-x  43 patrick  patrick  89 20 déc 16:34 ../
> drwxr-xr-x   3 patrick  patrick   3 20 déc 16:35 chrome/
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 patrick  patrick   0 15 déc  2010 chrome.manifest*
> drwxr-xr-x   3 patrick  patrick   3 20 déc 16:35 defaults/
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 patrick  patrick   0 31 déc  2010 install.rdf*
>
> On 8.2 that works fine.
>
> Regards.
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This is a libarchive bug.

Fixed in upstream r3723:
http://code.google.com/p/libarchive/source/detail?r=3723

I am preparing a libarchive update to 2.8.5 + recent SVN bugfixes. This
won't make it to 9.0, though.

-- 
Martin Matuska
FreeBSD committer
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