FS#23782 - [wireshark] enable support for zlib compressed capture files

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Andreas Messer (amesser) - Friday, 15 April 2011, 18:21 GMT
Last edited by Guillaume ALAUX (galaux) - Friday, 17 June 2011, 16:18 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Guillaume ALAUX (galaux)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 2
Private No

Details

Description:
The support for zlib compression in wireshark is currently explicitly
disabled at compiletime. (PKGBUILD) I suggest to enable this feature
as this greatly improves load time for large trace files and also
makes working with compressed trace files much easier.

Additional info:
* affected packages: wireshark-cli 1.4.4-1, wireshark-gtk 1.4.4-1
This task depends upon

Closed by  Guillaume ALAUX (galaux)
Friday, 17 June 2011, 16:18 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  Fixed by upstream
Comment by Ionut Biru (wonder) - Friday, 15 April 2011, 18:33 GMT
we can't really enable that because is broken.  FS#19769 

Comment by Andreas Messer (amesser) - Tuesday, 19 April 2011, 18:33 GMT
Ah, OK. Should I request closure of this request, or wait until the bug is solved in wireshark?
Comment by Ionut Biru (wonder) - Tuesday, 19 April 2011, 21:31 GMT
can you recompile wireshark with zlib support and see if is working?
Comment by Andrew Korzhuev (andrusha) - Thursday, 21 April 2011, 20:04 GMT
I have recompiled x86_64 version with --with-zlib=yes key and it works perfectly fine for me.
Comment by Andreas Messer (amesser) - Friday, 22 April 2011, 19:58 GMT
Sorry for late reply. I also compiled it for x86_64 and it did not work. Wireshark hangs at some point or packets are missing. I get similar errors on console as reported in upstream.
Comment by Guillaume ALAUX (galaux) - Thursday, 28 April 2011, 06:00 GMT
+1 here: I'm trying to re-enable the option every time a new Wireshark is out but no luck so far.
Comment by Andrew Korzhuev (andrusha) - Thursday, 28 April 2011, 14:19 GMT
I have found that packets missing only on tap interface (VDE in my case) and works ok on wlan.
Comment by Guillaume ALAUX (galaux) - Wednesday, 01 June 2011, 11:31 GMT
Still lots of these when compiling 1.4.7 with --with-zlib=yes
Warn Error "File contains a record that's not valid" while reading: "/tmp/wiresharkXXXXtaoMLS"

So no zlib support yet in Arch.

Upstream bug: https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5818
Comment by Guillaume ALAUX (galaux) - Friday, 17 June 2011, 16:17 GMT
Zlib support is back in our Wireshark 1.6.0 package. This has been tested and looks fixed. Please re-open this report if the bug is back.

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