[issue6054] tarfile normalizes arcname

2009-05-23 Thread mkv
mkv added the comment: Great, thanks for the speedy work :) Now if only issue4750 would get fixed for 2.7 as well ;) -- ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue6

[issue6054] tarfile normalizes arcname

2009-05-21 Thread mkv
mkv added the comment: I'm creating a debian package (.deb) for a system which uses busybox's dpkg. A deb is an ar-archive (not tar, unix ar) archive, which in turn contains two tar archives. dpkg will first extract a tar archive called control.tar.gz (or bz2) from the package, and

[issue6054] tarfile normalizes arcname

2009-05-18 Thread mkv
New submission from mkv : When creating tar archives using the tarfile module, requested arc names are not respected. It is currently impossible to create a tar which when listing contents would give: $tar tvf test.tar ./ ./control ./prerm ./postinst The actual result will be $tar tvf