On Jun 24, 2007, at 5:50 PM, Alex Myltsev wrote:
In ALT Linux we often use uncompressed tarballs as RPM Source files.
RPM's LZMA compression support breaks our packages: in many cases, the
tarball will contain zeroes at offsets 9..12, and isCompressed() will
report it to be an LZMA-compressed file.
One possible fix is to use libmagic, which seems to be able to tell
tarballs from LZMA compression. Alternatively, we could check for an
.lzma extension in the filename. (I could just disable LZMA
decompression support in our build, but I don't want to create local
incompatibilities if 4.5 is going to be the "all-round compatible"
version of RPM.)
I suspect that libmagic just detects tarballs first, which is not what
isCompressed() is concerned with.
No .lzma suffix detection please.
Disabling until LZMA gets magic is likely the best solution imho.
There are several flaws in the lzma -> rpm implementation, not the
least of
which is the copyright spew every time the helper is invoked.
73 de Jeff
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