Creating 7z archives of folders through nautilus is broken

[Joseph Garvin]

Binary package hint: file-roller

Steps to reproduce:

1. Right click a folder that has some files in it.
2. Click "Create Archive"
3. Specify a filename and choose "7z" as the format.
4. Click create.

You'll end up with a file that is always 32-bytes, and file-roller won't display any progress bar or anything -- it appears to finish instantly. 7zip is good at compressing files but it's not so good that it can compress my music collection into 32-bytes ;)

[Lionel Le Folgoc (mrpouit)]

Same bug here.

I tried to compress a directory called 'build' with some source files into, and it seems that file-roller is unable to find the files ; it displays this output :

=================================================
7-Zip (A) 4.30 beta Copyright (c) 1999-2005 Igor Pavlov 2005-11-18
p7zip Version 4.30 (locale=fr_FR.UTF-8,Utf16=on,HugeFiles=on)
Scanning

build\cpp\prout.cpp: WARNING: No more files
build\c\if.c: WARNING: No more files
build\c\a.out: WARNING: No more files
build\c\tab.c: WARNING: No more files
build\c\switch.c: WARNING: No more files
build\c\conv.c: WARNING: No more files
build\c\test.c: WARNING: No more files
build\c\break.c: WARNING: No more files
build\c\point.c: WARNING: No more files

Creating archive /home/silk/Desktop/test.7z

WARNINGS for files:

build\cpp\prout.cpp : No more files
build\c\if.c : No more files
build\c\a.out : No more files
build\c\tab.c : No more files
build\c\switch.c : No more files
build\c\conv.c : No more files
build\c\test.c : No more files
build\c\break.c : No more files
build\c\point.c : No more files
----------------
WARNING: Cannot find 9 files
=================================================

But using directly p7zip works :
=================================================
$ 7z a build.7z build

7-Zip 4.30 beta Copyright (c) 1999-2005 Igor Pavlov 2005-11-18
p7zip Version 4.30 (locale=fr_FR.UTF-8,Utf16=on,HugeFiles=on)
Scanning

Creating archive build.7z

Compressing build/c/break.c
Compressing build/c/conv.c
Compressing build/c/if.c
Compressing build/c/point.c
Compressing build/c/switch.c
Compressing build/c/tab.c
Compressing build/c/test.c
Compressing build/cpp/prout.cpp
Compressing build/c/a.out

Everything is Ok
=================================================

[Lionel Le Folgoc (mrpouit)]

I have just seen that in the first output, it uses "\" instead of "/". This is probably the reason it doesn't find the files...

[William Grant (wgrant)]

I too can confirm this.

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

This is a known upstream issue: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=346857

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

Fixed in Upstream CVS.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

This upload fixes the issue:

 file-roller (2.17.2-0ubuntu1) feisty; urgency=low
 .
   * New upstream version:
     - Make stock icons themable. (#362922)
     - Do not add temp archives to the recent files list
     - View as Java Archive (jar) (#43975)
     - Do not display a 100% progress bar when the last file is processed.
     - Rename the extraction folder if a folder with the same name already
       exists.
     - Fixed bug #349824 - does not work with 7zr. (Ubuntu: #51060)
     - Fixed bug #350192 - [PATCH] Make the Ok button to be default in
       delete dialog
     - Fixed bug #160991 - Crash while trying to extract from a .sit
     - Fixed bug #355307 - If uncompressed name not specified in compressed
       file, cannot view, bad extracted filename.
     - Fixed bug #348211 - Please distinguish "View" menus/buttons for
       translation.
     - Fixed bug #347019 - incorrect error message shown when trying to open
       incomplete archive
     - Fixed bug #338210 - Context menu option "open files" not available
       for folders.
     - Fixed bug #348524 - rar archives give ERROR: Unknown option: idp
     - Fixed bug #370754 - Manual menu item should be 'Contents' not 'Help'
   * debian/patches/02_lpi.patch:
     - patch renamed and updated
   * debian/patches/03_autoconf.patch:
     - updated

[Fridtjof Busse (fbusse-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

Is this going to get fixed in edgy?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

no, it's not likely to be backported to feisty, 7zip is not that used at the moment, we got few bugs about it, that's a minor problem and the stable updates are non trivial to do