GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 532983
file-roller support for symlinks faulty
Last modified: 2020-11-11 19:13:04 UTC
Please describe the problem: The is a meta-bug. There are various issues with it's handling of symlinks including mounted sftp connections and getting stuck in loops following recursive links. Gnome bug 462371 may be related. Ubuntu bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/file-roller/+bug/215302 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/file-roller/+bug/189066 The second is marked as a duplicate of the first but it's probably not. Steps to reproduce: 1. Various archiving/extraction processes involving symlinks. 2. 3. Actual results: Files fail to open, all temporary space is consumed, etc. Expected results: Predictable behavior. Does this happen every time? varies Other information:
Biggest annoyance right now with symlinks is that if you don't extract ALL files (using the explicit all files option or right click extract in nautilus) then file-roller fails to recreate symlinks.. Even if I only have one folder in the zip (with symlinks inside it) extracting JUST that folder (via drag drop for instance) does not recreate the symlinks.. This issue is causing issue with users of the demo I am distributing since the required symlinks are not being recreated.
Please let me know if I should open a separate bug report, but unpacking DVD images (I suppose the same goes for any ISO 9660 file system) which contain symbolic links via the rock ridge extension, create plain text files instead of the symlinks. Please support unpacking symlinks on file systems which support it.
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