[Pkg-mc-devel] Bug#528331: mc: [VFS] utar internal filter is unable to open .tar files

[Antonio Gallo]

Package: mc
Version: 2:4.6.2~git20080311-4
Severity: normal


i create this filesystem backup:
	tar -v -f snapshot.tar --exclude-from=snapshot-exclude3.list -C / -c .
or
	tar -v -f snapshot.tar --exclude-from=snapshot-exclude3.list -c /*

I test snapshot.tar using "file", "tar -tvf snapshot.tar" and "F3" within MC
and all 3 tests works.

BUT when i press ENTER from MC to enter the archive using VFA#UTAR it display
completly empty.

This should be something with the internal tar filter since if i compress
snapshot.tar using gzip or bzip2 and i press enter onto the compressed archive
it works perfectly.

I never had such a problem with old Debian "sarge". I seen this bug also
in new Ubuntu 9.04 but since Ubuntu does not have a bug reporting system
for users i scratched it and reinstalled Debian 5.0 and found the same bug.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.1
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages mc depends on:
ii  libc6                    2.7-18          GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libglib2.0-0             2.16.6-1+lenny1 The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgpm2                  1.20.4-3.1      General Purpose Mouse - shared lib
ii  libslang2                2.1.3-3         The S-Lang programming library - r

mc recommends no packages.

Versions of packages mc suggests:
pn  arj                           <none>     (no description available)
ii  bzip2                         1.0.5-1    high-quality block-sorting file co
pn  dbview                        <none>     (no description available)
ii  file                          4.26-1     Determines file type using "magic"
pn  links | w3m | lynx            <none>     (no description available)
ii  mime-support                  3.44-1     MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap
pn  odt2txt                       <none>     (no description available)
ii  perl                          5.10.0-19  Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  unzip                         5.52-12    De-archiver for .zip files
pn  xpdf                          <none>     (no description available)
pn  zip                           <none>     (no description available)

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