Extraction fails for .tar.gz archive
Bug #114784 reported by
Chandru
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| KDE Utilities |
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| kdeutils (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: ark
Package Version: 4:3.5.6-0ubuntu2
When I open the archive(
1. If I do not select any of the files inside the archive and click on extract button on the toolbar to extract, it does not give any problem.
2. However, if I select the top-most directory(demo) and click on extract button on the toolbar to extract, it gives an error message but the files are extracted properly. I've attached a screenshot of the error displayed.
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| status: | Unconfirmed → Confirmed |
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| status: | Unknown → Confirmed |
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| status: | Confirmed → Triaged |
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| status: | Triaged → Fix Released |
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| status: | Confirmed → Fix Released |
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| importance: | Unknown → Medium |
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I've found where the problem lies. The problem is caused due to the fact that the tar program reports error when both a directory and its files/subdirs are provided in the list of files to be extracted.
Consider the following directory structure inside the archive (test.tar.gz).
test
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|-demo
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|-index.html
Now executing the following command,
tar -xzf test.tar.gz test test/demo test/demo/
would generate the following error,
tar: test/demo: Not found in archive
tar: test/demo/
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
This is exactly the problem generated by ark. There is no necessity to include the children of the directory selected to be included in the list of files to be extracted, as the contents of the directories specified get extracted by default.
tar -xzf test.tar.gz test
would be sufficient. However, this is not true for other archive programs like zip.
The problem at hand:
In the source code of ark, the "FileListView" class (inside filelistview.cpp) contains the function "selectedFilena
Solution:
This problem can be solved, if a piece of code is incorporated into "FileListView:
I hope this understanding would greatly help the developers in fixing the problem soon. I'm very sorry that I'm not able to solve the problem myself as I don't have the time to do fix it in the code. I've dared to change the status of the bug to "confirmed".