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Re: [PATCH 4/4] t5002: check if unzip supports symlinks

From
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date
Jan 10, 2013, 07:36 UTC
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<20130110073629.GC5121@elie.Belkin>
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René Scharfe wrote:
> Am 07.01.2013 09:52, schrieb Jonathan Nieder:
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>> Hm.  Do some implementations of "unzip" not support symlinks, or is
>> the problem that some systems build Info-ZIP without the SYMLINKS
>> option?
>
> The unzip supplied with NetBSD 6.0.1, which is based on libarchive, doesn't
> support symlinks.  It creates a file with the link target path as its only
> content for such entries.

Ok, that makes sense. A quick search finds <https://code.google.com/p/libarchive/issues/detail?id=104>, which if I understand correctly was fixed in libarchive 3.0.2. NetBSD 6 uses a patched 2.8.4.

[...]
> For the test script there is no difference: If we don't have a tool to
> verify symlinks in archives, we better skip that part.

Yeah, I just wanted to see if there were other parts of the world that needed fixing while at it. Thanks for explaining.

Ciao, Jonathan

Previous: René Scharfe
Message 23 of 23 in “[LHF] making t5000 "tar xf" tests more lenient”
  1. Junio C HamanoDec 24, 2012
  2. René ScharfeJan 5, 2013
  3. Junio C HamanoJan 5, 2013
  4. Junio C HamanoJan 5, 2013
  5. René ScharfeJan 5, 2013
  6. archive-tar: split long paths more carefullyRené Scharfe, Jan 5, 2013
  7. Jonathan NiederJan 5, 2013
  8. Junio C HamanoJan 6, 2013
  9. archive-zip: write uncompressed size into header even with streamingRené Scharfe, Jan 6, 2013
  10. 0/4 ZIP test fixesRené Scharfe, Jan 6, 2013
  11. 1/4 t0024, t5000: clear variable UNZIP, use GIT_UNZIP insteadRené Scharfe, Jan 6, 2013
  12. Jonathan NiederJan 7, 2013
  13. René ScharfeJan 7, 2013
  14. 2/4 t0024, t5000: use test_lazy_prereq for UNZIPRené Scharfe, Jan 6, 2013
  15. Matt KraaiJan 6, 2013
  16. René ScharfeJan 6, 2013
  17. Jonathan NiederJan 7, 2013
  18. René ScharfeJan 7, 2013
  19. 3/4 t5000, t5002: move ZIP tests into their own scriptRené Scharfe, Jan 6, 2013
  20. 4/4 t5002: check if unzip supports symlinksRené Scharfe, Jan 6, 2013
  21. Jonathan NiederJan 7, 2013
  22. René ScharfeJan 7, 2013
  23. Jonathan NiederJan 10, 2013

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