[opensuse-factory] upstream fix only in next version: file openSUSE bug anyway?
Midnight Commander has no "branches". It has current release, and it has GIT. Current TW release version 4.8.19 is broken in manner for which only workarounds are reverting to a non-available version, (4.8.18 was also broken; Leap has only 4.8.15; 4.8.17 was good for me), or self-building (not an option for me). Next release I estimate to occur would be October. I don't find any roadmap for a next relase. Is there any point in filing an openSUSE bug in such a case? Mailing list thread starter: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/mc/2017-August/msg00000.html https://mail.gnome.org/archives/mc/2017-August/msg00003.html points to supposed upstream closed bug, in which I am unable to discern any correlation to the problem I'm encountering: https://midnight-commander.org/ticket/3821 All recent changelog entries for openSUSE's MC package are for same person, who has reported he is no longer providing maintenance on the package. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org
On Sat, 12 Aug 2017 23:47:04 -0400 Felix Miata wrote:
Mailing list thread starter: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/mc/2017-August/msg00000.html
This thread is about extracting files from a tar archive with mc. The handling of tar archives by mc has a limitation of file names (including path) to 100 characters which is still present in the TW version. Therefore extraction of possibly deeply nested archives as described in the referenced thread is risky as long file names could be truncated without warning. There is an openSUSE bug for this limitation providing some background and links to an mc ticket: https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=836558 This bugzilla also contains an extfs module which can be used in replacement of the mc internal utar handling of tar files which does not have the limitation to 100 characters and according to my short test also preserves the time stamps upon extraction. I think https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1024931 is a duplicate to this. In order to use this replacement for the logged in user: 1) store the untar attachment (it is a shell script) from the mentioned bugzilla as ~/.local/share/mc/extfs.d/untar 2) if you do not yet have the file ~/.config/mc/mc.ext copy /etc/mc/mc.ext to ~/.config/mc/mc.ext 3) in the file ~/.config/mc/mc.ext replace all occurrences of "utar" by "untar" 4) restart mc Now mc should use the replacement in order to handle tar files. I am using this replacement for some years now and it works fine for me. Regards, Dieter -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org
On Sun, 13 Aug 2017 10:04:23 +0200 dieter wrote: small omission in the instruction for the extfs installation:
https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=836558
This bugzilla also contains an extfs module which can be used in replacement of the mc internal utar handling of tar files which does not have the limitation to 100 characters and according to my short test also preserves the time stamps upon extraction.
In order to use this replacement for the logged in user: 1) store the untar attachment (it is a shell script) from the mentioned bugzilla as ~/.local/share/mc/extfs.d/untar and make it executable: chmod a+x ~/.local/share/mc/extfs.d/untar
2) if you do not yet have the file ~/.config/mc/mc.ext copy /etc/mc/mc.ext to ~/.config/mc/mc.ext
3) in the file ~/.config/mc/mc.ext replace all occurrences of "utar" by "untar"
4) restart mc
Regards, Dieter -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org
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