Bug#763119: [libtar] Bug#763119: misinterprets old-style GNU headers

2014-10-13 Thread Tim Kientzle
On Oct 13, 2014, at 10:38 AM, Magnus Holmgren holmg...@debian.org wrote: The difference is that ustar is followed by two spaces, whereas in tar files created by libtar it's followed by a null character. The history behind this may help make it clearer: There has been a POSIX standard for

Bug#659294: [libarchive-discuss] Fwd: Bug#659294: libarchive: FTBFS on various architectures (hurd, mipsel, s390, s390x)

2012-02-21 Thread Tim Kientzle
On Feb 21, 2012, at 3:40 AM, Pino Toscano wrote: Hi, (greetings from your favourite Hurd porter) Alle lunedì 13 febbraio 2012, Tim Kientzle ha scritto: So on hurd, I see a couple of interesting failures for bsdtar: [...] Actually, libarchive is pretty fine on Hurd, as it was after I

Bug#659294: [libarchive-discuss] Fwd: Bug#659294: libarchive: FTBFS on various architectures (hurd, mipsel, s390, s390x)

2012-02-12 Thread Tim Kientzle
as well), that would be appreciated. Thanks, Tim Kientzle -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#659294: [libarchive-discuss] Fwd: Bug#659294: libarchive: FTBFS on various architectures (hurd, mipsel, s390, s390x)

2012-02-09 Thread Tim Kientzle
Each of these reports includes the name of the test directory, e.g., Details for failing tests: /tmp/libarchive_test.2012-02-06T23.02.12-000 Can we get the contents of those directories (which include detailed logs for each failure, the files involved, and other details)? Tim On Feb 9,

Bug#136231: [Bug-tar] Failure with --owner and --group when names cannot be mapped to IDs

2011-08-22 Thread Tim Kientzle
On Aug 13, 2011, at 10:29 AM, Paul Eggert wrote: On 08/08/2011 03:28 AM, Thayne Harbaugh wrote: Attached is a patch that allows archives to be created with arbitrary owner or group names. Thanks for the bug report and patch; I was unaware of the problem. This runs into another area that

Bug#610783: [libarchive-discuss] Re: Bug#610783: bsdtar: Doesn't extract the install* and isolinux* directories of d-i images

2011-01-25 Thread Tim Kientzle
Thomas, It will be a day or two before I can dig deeply into this. Unfortunately, it's been a while since I looked at that part of the code in detail, but I don't recall libarchive requiring all directories to precede all files and I recall a bunch of test cases over the last couple of years

Bug#546185: Username lookup failures with bsdtar --chroot

2010-03-14 Thread Tim Kientzle
/password and /etc/group. We're willing to consider arguments to the contrary; please feel free to add your comments to the bug linked to just above. Cheers, Tim Kientzle -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Bug#546185: bsdtar: doesn't warn when library open after --chroot fails

2010-02-24 Thread Tim Kientzle
I've filed a bug on libarchive.googlecode.com to track this issue upstream: http://code.google.com/p/libarchive/issues/detail?id=69 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#530301: libarchive on HURD

2010-02-24 Thread Tim Kientzle
: a) Has no limit on the length of a path argument to system calls such as open(), stat(), etc. b) Has some other way to determine that limit. As soon as I get clarification on this issue, it will be quite easy to fix. Tim Kientzle libarchive author and maintainer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Bug#565474: [Bug-cpio] Re: Bug#565474: cpio makes device nodes into hard links when copying out of a cramfs image

2010-01-17 Thread Tim Kientzle
Carl Miller wrote: On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 05:09:45AM +, Clint Adams wrote: You mean something like this? - (d-header.c_dev_min == min) ) + (d-header.c_dev_min == min) + ((d-header.c_mode CP_IFBLK) != CP_IFBLK) + ((d-header.c_mode CP_IFCHR) !=

Bug#565474: [Bug-cpio] Re: Bug#565474: cpio makes device nodes into hard links when copying out of a cramfs image

2010-01-17 Thread Tim Kientzle
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 08:06:54PM -0800, Carl Miller wrote: cramfs takes a shortcut with device nodes, and assigns them all inode 1. I presume it also assigns nlinks == 1? When using cpio to copy files out of a cramfs image, cpio turns the second and all subsequent copied device nodes into

Bug#42158: a FreeBSD reference in disagreement with pax's behavior

2008-08-24 Thread Tim Kientzle
don't know if SVr4 includes any documentation for the format apart from the implementation itself. I don't have access to SVr4 source code. Cheers, Tim Kientzle -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#42158: a FreeBSD reference in disagreement with pax's behavior

2008-08-18 Thread Tim Kientzle
work). I think it would be good to compare to OpenSolaris cpio, being a third independent implementation of cpio. At the moment I do not have access to one, but I'll try to setup something today. Let us know what you find. Cheers, Tim Kientzle -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#42158: a FreeBSD reference in disagreement with pax's behavior

2008-08-18 Thread Tim Kientzle
For Tim's reference: we're discussing pax here: http://bugs.debian.org/42158 I think it would be good to compare to OpenSolaris cpio, being a third independent implementation of cpio. At the moment I do not have access to one, but I'll try to setup something today. Oh, yeah. Gunnar Ritter's

Bug#42158: a FreeBSD reference in disagreement with pax's behavior

2008-08-18 Thread Tim Kientzle
Tim Kientzle wrote: For Tim's reference: we're discussing pax here: http://bugs.debian.org/42158 I think it would be good to compare to OpenSolaris cpio, being a third independent implementation of cpio. At the moment I do not have access to one, but I'll try to setup something today. Oh

Bug#42158: a FreeBSD reference in disagreement with pax's behavior

2008-08-15 Thread Tim Kientzle
for hardlink management within a single program. Tim Kientzle Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: Tim Kientzle of FreeBSD (author of libarchive, attempting to CC here) describes the cpio format here: http://people.freebsd.org/~kientzle/libarchive/man/cpio.5.txt This document states about the SRV4 (newc

Bug#494169: [Fwd: FW: Bug#494169: libarchive-dev: Please add a way to precompute (non-compressed) archive size]

2008-08-08 Thread Tim Kientzle
formats. It won't work well with some other formats where the length does actually depend on the data. Cheers, Tim Kientzle Original Message Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 21:31:27 -0500 From: John Goerzen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#494169: [Fwd: FW: Bug#494169: libarchive-dev: Please add a way to precompute (non-compressed) archive size]

2008-08-08 Thread Tim Kientzle
Thibaut VARENE wrote: On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 8:42 AM, Tim Kientzle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thibaut, John Goerzen forwarded your idea to me. You can actually implement this on top of the current libarchive code quite efficiently. Use the low-level archive_write_open() call and provide your

Bug#474400: Testsuite failure of bsdtar

2008-05-12 Thread Tim Kientzle
to avoid this problem on all platforms. I'll get that fix into 2.5.4. Thank you for your patience. I'll let you know as soon as I have a candidate fix. Cheers, Tim Kientzle -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#474400: Testsuite failure of bsdtar

2008-05-11 Thread Tim Kientzle
Good guess, but I don't think that explains anything, since the order in which hardlinked files get stored doesn't matter. (There are a few tests that do detailed format verification; those would be affected by the order in which files get stored, but none of those depend on the ordering of

Bug#474400: Fwd: Bug#474400: libarchive build failures

2008-05-07 Thread Tim Kientzle
illuminating. If this doesn't shed any light, send me the contents of /tmp/bsdtar_test_X/test_basic for one of the failed tests. Maybe there are some other clues in there. Cheers, Tim Kientzle -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#419793: libarchive-dev: archive_write_data seems to ignore wrappers in some circumstances

2007-08-18 Thread Tim Kientzle
. This is a low priority for me right now, though I do believe that I've factored the internals well enough to make this a feasible project for someone who knows nothing about libarchive. If anyone is interested, let me know. Tim Kientzle -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#419793: libarchive-dev: archive_write_data seems to ignore wrappers in some circumstances

2007-04-18 Thread Tim Kientzle
Note the use of __xstat64/fopen64 for the working code instead of __xstat/fopen for the non-working code. At this point I believed it had something to do with the use of 64bit offsets (USE_FILE_OFFSET64) but simply adding this define to the compiler commandline didn't fix the issue. I'm not

Bug#419793: libarchive-dev: archive_write_data seems to ignore wrappers in some circumstances

2007-04-17 Thread Tim Kientzle
the 32-bit version, it won't work. Apparently, httpd.h is somehow forcing your code to use the 32-bit stat, which is incompatible with libarchive. Tim Kientzle -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#419793: libarchive-dev: archive_write_data seems to ignore wrappers in some circumstances

2007-04-17 Thread Tim Kientzle
Thibaut VARENE wrote: bip 8192 Do I win? bip 8192 Do I win? bip 8192 (note, with libarchive 2, 'bip' (the output of archive_write) is 0, which seems a bit more coherent). Yes, libarchive 1 does return wrong values from archive_write. As you observed, this bug is fixed in libarchive 2. Tim