Bugs item #1609958, was opened at 2006-12-06 09:58 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by gbrandl You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=105470&aid=1609958&group_id=5470
Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: Python Library Group: Python 2.5 >Status: Closed >Resolution: Fixed Priority: 5 Private: No Submitted By: Frank Rehberger (frehberg) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: tarfile archive paths limited to less than 100 chars Initial Comment: The tarfile-module 0.8 shipped with Python-2.5 fails to handle archive-paths longer than 100 chars, in posix mode and GNU-mode. AFAICS, the path-length limit should be 256 for posix-mode and infinite for GNU-mode. The last tarfile module I know, being able to handle long paths is tarfile-0.7.4. Attached you will find a test-script. The script prints the tarfile.version you are using to console and runs two tests, one for posix-mode up to path-length 256 and a second test for GNU-mode with pathlengths up to 1024. ### ###Testoutput with Python-2.5 ### > /usr/local/bin/python2.5 check-tarfile-module.py Python Version: 2.5 (r25:51908, Dec 6 2006, 10:13:25) [GCC 3.2.3 20030502 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.3-47)] Executable: /home/frehberg/tmp/bin/python Tarfile Version: 0.8.0 TarFile pathlength check failed, do not use!! failed for tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/fooo (length 100, posix=True) TarFile pathlength check failed, do not use!! failed for tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/fooo (length 100, posix=False) ### ###Workarround for Python-2.5 ### (Assuming you are using Linux and Python-2.5 has been installed with prefix /usr/local/) Download tarfile-0.7.4 from http://www.gustaebel.de/lars/tarfile/ and run: ## remove original tarfile-module shipped with ## python2.5 rm -rf /usr/local/lib/python2.5/tarfile.py* ## install tarfile-0.7.4 tar -xvz -C /tmp/ -f /net/linux/pkg/python/tarfile-0.7.4.tar.gz cd /tmp/tarfile-0.7.4/ /usr/local/bin/python2.5 setup.py install ### ###Testoutput with patched Python-2.5 ### > /usr/local/bin/python2.5 check-tarfile-module.py Python Version: 2.5 (r25:51908, Dec 6 2006, 10:13:25) [GCC 3.2.3 20030502 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.3-47)] Executable: /usr/local/bin/python Tarfile Version: 0.7.4 Tarfile module (posix=True) is Ok Tarfile module (posix=False) is Ok ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comment By: Georg Brandl (gbrandl) Date: 2006-12-06 22:22 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=849994 Originator: NO This was fixed by patch #1610437, thanks for the report. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=105470&aid=1609958&group_id=5470 _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
