kdelibs-4.7.2 untar fails

[Patrick von Reth]

7.4.3 fails too with python tar

On 10 November 2011 09:38, Andre Heinecke <aheinecke at intevation.de> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Tuesday 18 October 2011 17:30:49 Ralf Habacker wrote:
> > Am 18.10.2011 16:05, schrieb Patrick von Reth:
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > If I try to unpack kdelibs 4.7.2 on emerge branch kde-4.7, python
> > > untar only extracts a nepumuk direcetory.
> > > But the tar is complete, with 7z I can extract it without problems.
> > > Does it work for you?
> >
> > no, same issue here
> >
> > did it work in the past ?
> >
> > > As a quick fix I patched my utils.py to untar with 7z, I know its not
> > > a solution but its working ;)
> > >
> > > From some tests with EMERGE_MEASURE_TIME=True in the past I know that
> > > unpacking tars with 7z is nearly as fast as  with python untar.
> >
> > so 7z should be added as recommended package for emerge ?
> We had sevenzip as default since Oct 30 now, this lead to strange errors
> with
> openssl, after investigation this turns out to be caused by the symbolic
> link
> handling of 7z on Windows, some symbolic links were extracted as copys,
> some
> were corrupted. A google search on "sevenzip windows symlinks" turns up
> several bug reports about this, even some mentioning openssl as an example.
> I've reverted untaring with 7zip with commit
> http://commits.kde.org/emerge/22b9634cda6d526140487f4c7cf0d4ace1d31be8
>
> Python extracts symlinks as a straightforward copy, this is defined
> behavior
> and it works on all windows platforms.
> I would rather have the untar fail early and loudly as it did with kdelibs
> then to have it "succeed" and corrupting my data :)
>
> Now with regards to the kdelibs tarball, i think we should check if that is
> really a valid tarfile and if so report a bug to python and if not get in
> contact with packagers of kdelibs. Since we had this problem only once with
> all the hundreds (maybe thousands) different tarballs that were unTared by
> emerge (and are untared by python in general) i am inclined to think that
> something was wrong with that tarball.
>
> Regards,
> Andre
>
>
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