From kde-bugs-dist  Sun Jan 06 01:14:07 2008
From: Henrique Pinto <henrique.pinto () kdemail ! net>
Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2008 01:14:07 +0000
To: kde-bugs-dist
Subject: [Bug 146692] Extraction fails for .tar.gz archive
Message-Id: <20080106011407.13250.qmail () ktown ! kde ! org>
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------- Additional Comments From henrique.pinto kdemail net  2008-01-06 02:14 -------
On Sat 05 Jan 2008 12:58:18 Chandra Sekar wrote:
> ------- I see this line,
>
> Revived support for .tar, .tar.gz, and .tar.bz2 files in Ark.
>
> in this commit digest,
>
> http://commit-digest.org/issues/2007-12-30/
>
> Does this mean this bug is fixed in KDE 4?  Can someone please explain
> the current state?
>
> I apologize for not testing the latest build.  I'm not finding enough
> time for it.


No. Support for those file formats is broken in KDE4, and that plugin should 
not have been enabled by default. I asked the commiter to revert it, but he 
ignored me. 

In KDE 4.0.0, extracting tar files will randomly fail, and trying to add 
files to those archives will probably wipe the archive from the disk 
completely. I don't think anyone will use 4.0 though, so it shouldn't 
really be a problem...