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FS#12716 - (libarchive) bsdtar fails on extracting .zip archives with empty files

Attached to Project: Pacman
Opened by Xiong Chiamiov (Xiong_Chiamiov) - Friday, 09 January 2009, 00:01 GMT
Last edited by Dan McGee (toofishes) - Monday, 12 January 2009, 03:41 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category General
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 3.2.1
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Summary and Info:
Bsdtar, which is provided by libarchive, fails when attempting to extract a zip archive that contains empty files, as is often seen in Python packages with init.py files.

Steps to Reproduce:
Install python-myghtyutils from AUR, or 0.52 package directly (http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/M/MyghtyUtils/) and attempt to extract it with bsdtar.
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Closed by  Dan McGee (toofishes)
Monday, 12 January 2009, 03:41 GMT
Reason for closing:  Upstream
Additional comments about closing:  Fixed upstream, will work in 2.6.1.
Comment by Dan McGee (toofishes) - Friday, 09 January 2009, 00:51 GMT
Sounds like you need to report this upstream. The website is here: http://people.freebsd.org/~kientzle/libarchive/ and an issues list is here: http://code.google.com/p/libarchive/issues/list.
Comment by Xiong Chiamiov (Xiong_Chiamiov) - Friday, 09 January 2009, 01:56 GMT
Reported upstream: http://code.google.com/p/libarchive/issues/detail?id=3

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