Ark unable to determine archive type of a xar archive. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. make sure you have an archive that produced by xar. 2. open that archive with ark. Actual Results: Ark show "Unable to Determine Archive Type" Expected Results: Ark should open the archive. Ark can open the archive if you rename the archive extension from xar to rpm. I hope ark can support xar filetypes or determine xar as rpm archive (rpm5 use xar library). or, a new feature that make user can determine archive type from an archive (or file extension), eg: ark --determine rpm "filename.xar" > more information about xar project : code.google.com/p/xar/ I'm sorry for my bad english.
Git commit 5dff013d4a3fdc473bc17d608c822a221aa75f01 by Ragnar Thomsen. Committed on 07/05/2016 at 16:22. Pushed by rthomsen into branch 'master'. Add XAR support Enable read-only XAR support in libarchiveplugin. The XAR mimetype was added in shared-mime-info 1.6 released in February 2016, so we install the mimetype ourselves in case the user is running an older version than 1.6. FIXED-IN: 16.08.0 Differential Revision: D1551 M +23 -0 autotests/kerfuffle/archivetest.cpp A +- -- autotests/kerfuffle/data/simplearchive.xar M +2 -0 autotests/kerfuffle/mimetypetest.cpp M +8 -0 kerfuffle/mime/kerfuffle.xml M +1 -1 plugins/libarchive/CMakeLists.txt M +2 -1 plugins/libarchive/kerfuffle_libarchive_readonly.json http://commits.kde.org/ark/5dff013d4a3fdc473bc17d608c822a221aa75f01