FS#10941 - libarrchive bsdtar unzips weka incorrectly with 0 byte files

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Andreas Hauser (buggs) - Thursday, 17 July 2008, 19:05 GMT
Last edited by Dan McGee (toofishes) - Sunday, 07 September 2008, 15:28 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Core
Status Closed
Assigned To Dan McGee (toofishes)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 2007.08-2
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
libarrchive bsdtar unzips weka incorrectly with 0 byte files

Additional info:
* package version(s)
core/libarchive 2.4.17-1 (base)


Steps to reproduce:
wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/weka/weka-3-5-7.zip
bsdtar -xf /home/sources/weka-3-5-7.zip

Fix:
Use unzip.
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Closed by  Dan McGee (toofishes)
Sunday, 07 September 2008, 15:28 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  Using unzip now in 3.5.8 pkgbuild
Comment by Dan McGee (toofishes) - Friday, 18 July 2008, 00:23 GMT
Have you tried with libarchive 2.5.5 (in testing, probably going to core tonight?).
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Friday, 18 July 2008, 06:42 GMT
Same issue with that version.
Comment by Xavier (shining) - Saturday, 19 July 2008, 13:02 GMT
We apparently had an older report on the forums : http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=46598
I sent a mail to libarchive/bsdtar author.
Comment by Dan McGee (toofishes) - Thursday, 24 July 2008, 02:44 GMT
Xavier- any reply on this? It isn't hard for me to rework my PKGBUILD to use unzip, but I'm curious as to why this zip file fails.
Comment by Xavier (shining) - Thursday, 24 July 2008, 05:50 GMT
Kientzle used to be very responsive, but not this time. Maybe he took holidays after the 2.5.5 release :)

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