Bug 259494

Summary:	Make it possible to preview symlinks with the libarchive plugin
Product:	[Applications] ark	Reporter:	Aaron Lewis <the.warl0ck.1989>
Component:	plugins	Assignee:	Ragnar Thomsen <rthomsen6>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	elvis.angelaccio, giecrilj
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Compiled Sources
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments:	Test archive

Description Aaron Lewis 2010-12-11 04:34:14 UTC

Version:           unspecified (using KDE 4.5.4) 
OS:                Linux

I'm experiencing a unpleased problem , if a previewed file is a link , it could not previewed.

Ark should check the soft link of that file , and extract it together ( could ask user , but shouldn't be necessary ).

I.e , i got a directory structure like this :
root/doc/README
root/doc/app.1
root/README -> link to README

previewing README directly won't success , and user has no idea what kind of file it is before extracting everything.

Read that link if it's not an absolute path , and there should be some sanity checks , it's all yours , i'm just putting ideas.

Latest KDE 4.5.4 compiled on Gentoo , no such functions provided yet i guess ;-)

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Raphael Kubo da Costa 2010-12-11 21:06:05 UTC

What archive formats did you test?

Comment 2 Aaron Lewis 2010-12-12 05:09:57 UTC

Created attachment 54444 [details]
Test archive

%> mkdir -p testdir/doc
%> echo "Bonjour a Tous" > testdir/doc/aaron.1
%> ln -s testdir/doc/aaron.1 testdir/aaron.1
%> tar cjpvf test.tar.bz2 testdir && ark test.tar.bz2

Comment 3 Aaron Lewis 2010-12-12 05:10:56 UTC

Previewing directly aaron.1 would fail but doc/aaron.1.

Comment 4 Raphael Kubo da Costa 2011-08-23 21:22:21 UTC

*** Bug 261977 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***