Re: 2.0.1

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Simon Eisenmann wrote:
| The problem is that os.stat returns the size even of folders. Pythons
| tarfile inserts this size in the tarball entries for folders. Usually
| the tar extractors read this n bytes after the start of the entry. This
| is of course wrong for folders and should be ignored by the tar extracor
| (as *nix tar does it) in case when the folder flag is set. As it isnt
| the case for most tar extractors pythons tarfile should set the size for
| folders _anytime_ to zero. Then it should work. I will patch tarfile in
| the dist_plone script to do so. Probably we should report this to the
| python community. I suppose it will work then.
|

I added a patched version to dist_plone's cvs which uses a working
tarfile module. Tarballs created with this one work fine on other
extractors than *nix tar.

cheers,
~ Simon


Simon Eisenmann

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