FS#44326 - [p7zip] symlinks are not followed

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Freddie Chopin (Freddie Chopin) - Tuesday, 24 March 2015, 19:26 GMT
Last edited by Evangelos Foutras (foutrelis) - Wednesday, 11 May 2016, 10:18 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Evangelos Foutras (foutrelis)
Architecture All
Severity High
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
When using 9.38 the symlinks are _NOT_ followed. This worked perfectly well in 9.20 - there was a "-l" switch to follow the symlinks. Now the "-l" switch is not mentioned in "7za --help", so I'm not entirely sure whether it's a bug or a "feature"... I also reported this on p7zip project - https://sourceforge.net/p/p7zip/bugs/149/


Additional info:
* version 9.38 fails, 9.20 works fine

Steps to reproduce:
1. Create a symlink to some folder with files - "ln -s ... test-link"
2. Try to compress it - "7za a -l archive.7z test-link"
3. Instead of list of compressed files, all you get is this:

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$ 7za a -l archive.7z test-link

7-Zip (a) [64] 9.38 beta Copyright (c) 1999-2014 Igor Pavlov 2015-01-03
p7zip Version 9.38.1 (locale=en_US.UTF-8,Utf16=on,HugeFiles=on,2 CPUs,ASM)
Scanning

Creating archive archive.7z

Compressing test-link

Everything is Ok
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Closed by  Evangelos Foutras (foutrelis)
Wednesday, 11 May 2016, 10:18 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  p7zip 15.14.1-1

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