[issue7011] tarinfo has problems with longlinks

2009-09-28 Thread Patrick Gerken
Patrick Gerken added the comment: doh, I only searched for open bugs. Not for closed. This ticket is a dublicate of http://bugs.python.org/issue1471427 and fixed in python 2.5. If somebody has similar problems, here is a quickfix: I finally was able to reproduce the issue. It only happens when t

[issue7011] tarinfo has problems with longlinks

2009-09-28 Thread Patrick Gerken
New submission from Patrick Gerken : Sadly, I am unable to debug it enough to be able to provide a thorough test case. I can provide information of how to reproduce the problem on request. I have a tar file and a diff to tarfile.py with some pdbs that only get activated in the middle of the file