Bug#502785: file-roller: Opening files in cpio archives produces empty files

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort]

Michael Rasmussen wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 00:46:32 +0200
> Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> 
>> Can you attach an affected archive? I don't seem to be able to reproduce this:
>>
> Sure see attached.
> 
> $ file test.cpio 
> test.cpio: ASCII cpio archive (pre-SVR4 or odc)
> $ file test.cpio.gz 
> test.cpio.gz: gzip compressed data, was "test.cpio", from Unix, last
> modified: Mon Oct 20 00:50:52 2008
> 

Are you able to extract them using cpio? I don't seem to be:

emilio at debian:~/Desktop$ LC_ALL=C cpio -i < test.cpio
cpio:
/home/mir/.claws-mail/imapcache/mail.datanom.net/michael at rasmussen.cc/INBOX/test/9:
Cannot open: No such file or directory
cpio:
/home/mir/.claws-mail/imapcache/mail.datanom.net/michael at rasmussen.cc/INBOX/test/8:
Cannot open: No such file or directory
cpio:
/home/mir/.claws-mail/imapcache/mail.datanom.net/michael at rasmussen.cc/INBOX/test/7:
Cannot open: No such file or directory
cpio:
/home/mir/.claws-mail/imapcache/mail.datanom.net/michael at rasmussen.cc/INBOX/test/6:
Cannot open: No such file or directory
cpio:
/home/mir/.claws-mail/imapcache/mail.datanom.net/michael at rasmussen.cc/INBOX/test/5:
Cannot open: No such file or directory
cpio:
/home/mir/.claws-mail/imapcache/mail.datanom.net/michael at rasmussen.cc/INBOX/test/4:
Cannot open: No such file or directory
cpio:
/home/mir/.claws-mail/imapcache/mail.datanom.net/michael at rasmussen.cc/INBOX/test/3:
Cannot open: No such file or directory
cpio:
/home/mir/.claws-mail/imapcache/mail.datanom.net/michael at rasmussen.cc/INBOX/test/2:
Cannot open: No such file or directory
cpio:
/home/mir/.claws-mail/imapcache/mail.datanom.net/michael at rasmussen.cc/INBOX/test/1:
Cannot open: No such file or directory
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emilio at debian:~/Desktop$