FS#6610 - gzip doesn't support large files (>2GB)

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Damjan Georgievski (damjan) - Friday, 16 March 2007, 18:22 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Current
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture not specified
Severity High
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7.2 Gimmick
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

gzip/gunzip (version 1.2.4b-4) doesn't support large files (larger than 2GB).

Steps to reproduce:

1. create a 3GB file
$ dd if=/dev/zero of=file.tmp bs=1G count=3
$ ls -lh file.tmp
-rw-r--r-- 1 damjan users 3,0G 2007-03-16 18:46 file.tmp

2. Try to compress it:
$ gzip file.tmp
file.tmp: Value too large for defined data type

3. Alternativelly, it works:
$ cat file.tmp | gzip -c > file.tmp.gz

4. gunzip, fails when it reaches 2GB
$ rm file.tmp
$ gunzip file.tmp.gz
File size limit exceeded
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Closed by  Tobias Powalowski (tpowa)
Saturday, 17 March 2007, 09:36 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Comment by Damjan Georgievski (damjan) - Friday, 16 March 2007, 18:30 GMT
Slackware seems to use 1.3.3 (and 1.3.5 in 11.0) for some time now. Maybe ArchLinux should upgrade too.

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