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Bug 779437 - mime-types: drop rar support
mime-types: drop rar support
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gnome-autoar
Classification: Other
Component: general
unspecified
Other All
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: GNOME Autoar maintainer(s)
GNOME Autoar maintainer(s)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2017-03-01 19:39 UTC by Carlos Soriano
Modified: 2017-04-08 13:59 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
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Attachments
mime-types: drop rar support (1.39 KB, patch)
2017-03-01 19:39 UTC, Carlos Soriano 		committed Details | Review

Description Carlos Soriano 2017-03-01 19:39:13 UTC 
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Comment 1 Carlos Soriano 2017-03-01 19:39:16 UTC 
Created attachment 346994 [details] [review]
mime-types: drop rar support

Unfortunately rar is not well supported by libarchive, so for now let's
drop its support so we don't expect users of autoar to extract files
that are corrupted.

The upstream documentation of what rar parts are supported or not are
not clear, so far I found:
https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues/373
https://github.com/vitasdk/packages/pull/4#issuecomment-272375907
https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/wiki/LibarchiveFormats it says
read only for rar, but that is should work for any rar. However seems
rar5 is not supported.

This patch drops support for rar, and in case of some clients like
Nautilus will use file-roller for rar until libarchive fixes.
Comment 2 Carlos Soriano 2017-03-03 10:04:24 UTC 
Pushed since file roller added the nautilus extension for rar again.
If anything, please feel free to say.

Attachment 346994 [details] pushed as 66cf03f - mime-types: drop rar support