Bug#469359: file-roller fails to add .jar to tar archive

[Ben Finney]

package file-roller
tags 469359 + unreproducible
fixed 469359 2.28.2-1
thanks

On 04-Mar-2008, tim richardson wrote:
> When adding a jar file to a tar archive, file-roller stops adding files
> with the error message
> 
> tar: This does not look like a tar archive
> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

I am not able to reproduce this with version 2.28.2-1 of the
‘file-roller’ package.

On 05-Mar-2008, Tim Richardson wrote:
> Please see the upstream bug report for the attachment (a file which I
> can't add to a tar archive via file roller)

I retrieved that file for testing:

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$ wget -O gnome-bug-520146.jar https://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=106573
--2010-02-28 16:52:39--  https://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=106573
Resolving bugzilla.gnome.org... 209.132.180.171
Connecting to bugzilla.gnome.org|209.132.180.171|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location: http://bugzilla-attachments.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=106573 [following]
--2010-02-28 16:52:40--  http://bugzilla-attachments.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=106573
Resolving proxy... 192.168.5.7
Connecting to proxy|192.168.5.7|:8118... connected.
Proxy request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 98291 (96K) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: `gnome-bug-520146.jar'

100%[===================================================================================================================>] 98,291      24.0K/s   in 4.0s    

2010-02-28 16:52:44 (24.0 KB/s) - `gnome-bug-520146.jar' saved [98291/98291]

$ ls -l gnome-bug-520146.jar 
-rw-r--r-- 1 bignose bignose 98291 2010-02-28 16:52 gnome-bug-520146.jar

$ file gnome-bug-520146.jar 
gnome-bug-520146.jar: Zip archive data, at least v1.0 to extract
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> To reproduce:
> 
> 1. Open file-roller
> 2. Make a new tar archive
> 3. Add to the archive a .jar file

Performing the above steps with the latest version, using the example
file retrieved as above, I get no error and the resulting archive
contains the file:

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$ file-roller
[… perform steps described above …]

$ tar -tf test.tar 
gnome-bug-520146.jar

$ workdir=$(mktemp -t -d)

$ tar -xf test.tar -C ${workdir}

$ cmp ${workdir}/gnome-bug-520146.jar gnome-bug-520146.jar 

$ rm -r ${workdir}
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I am closing this report as fixed in the current version. If you find
the same behaviour, please submit repeatable steps to reproduce either
by re-opening this report or filing a new one.

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Ben Finney <ben at benfinney.id.au>
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