file-roller ignores symbolic links in iso-images when extracting

[kobayashimaru]

Binary package hint: file-roller

I use Ubuntu 7.10 and file-roller 2.20.1-0ubuntu1

When extracting an ISO 9660 filesystem (CD image) that contains symbolic links, these links are not created in the extracted folder. Instead, only an empty text file is created.
For examplet the "ubuntu-8.04-beta-server-i386.iso" contains two links in the "install/netboot" directory: "pxelinux.0" and "pxelinux.cfg". In the extracted folder these links are just plain text files.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Apr 15 16:39:37 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/file-roller
NonfreeKernelModules: video nvidia
Package: file-roller 2.20.1-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcCmdline: file-roller
ProcCwd: /home/koba
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=/home/koba/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
SourcePackage: file-roller
Uname: Linux bender 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Tue Feb 12 02:46:46 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue that you reported is one that should be reproducible with the live environment of the Desktop CD of the development release - Hardy Heron. It would help us greatly if you could test with it so we can work on getting it fixed in the next release of Ubuntu. You can find out more about the development release at http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/ . Thanks again and we appreciate your help.

[kobayashimaru (mail-marian-dubiel)]

I just testet file-roller 2.22.0 in the live environment of Ubuntu 8.04.

This time I used "ubuntu-8.04-beta-desktop-amd64.iso" to reproduce the bug:

When I open the file "ubuntu-8.04-beta-desktop-amd64.iso" with file-roller and open the "/dists" directory, I see one directory "hardy" and two files "stable" and "unstable" both with 0 bytes and unknown file type. These are symbolic links. These should be shown as symbolic links, but that's not so bad.
The bad thing is, when I extract the "/dists" directory (or the whole iso-image) onto my hard drive, no symbolic links are created as well. "stable" and "unstable" are created as text/plain files with 0 byte length.
So file-roller has to recognize symbolic links in ISO cd-images and create those links, when extracting the image.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

could you send it pstream to bugzilla.gnome.org since you're facing the issue? thanks.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

could you try if that's still an issue in intrepid?

[kobayashimaru (mail-marian-dubiel)]

Just testet it in intrepid. The problem still exists. For testing I used ubuntu-8.10-desktop-i386.iso: the directory "dists" contains the symbolic links "stable" and "unstable", which are shown as files with 0 byte size in file-roller (and also extracted as such).

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

Please forward the report upstream as previously requested by posting a report at http://ugzilla.gnome.org (linking the report here afterwards)

[Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

I marked that as a duplicate, because fileroller has some general problems with symlinks