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Id: 71325
Status: resolved
Worked: 5 min
Priority: 0/
Queue: ExtUtils-MakeMaker
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Owner: Nobody in particular
Requestors: mschwern [...] cpan.org
Cc: SteveHay [...] planit.com
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Bug Information
Severity: Important
Broken in: 6.61_01
Fixed in: (no value)

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  Wed Sep 28 23:42:48 2011 mschwern [...] cpan.org - Ticket created
CC: SteveHay [...] planit.com
Subject: Adjust for broken WinZip interpretation of tarballs
Steve reports... Show quoted text
> (Btw, I see that the 6.61_01 tarball is made in such a way that WinZip > doesn't handle it correctly on Windows -- it has the same problem which > I reported recently for the Apache-Singleton distro in #68532. I realize > it's a WinZip "feature", but many Windows users would appreciate it if > you could make your tarballs compatible with WinZip.)
https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=68532 and http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=627736 both report this as an Archive::Tar problem, but it seems to be WinZip not understanding POSIX style tarballs. See http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=628120 MakeMaker does not use Archive::Tar. I released it with GNU tar 1.26 which claims it is using the GNU tar 1.13.x format and not POSIX. It may be that WinZip doesn't understand that format either.
  Wed Sep 28 23:52:24 2011 mschwern [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
RT-Send-CC: SteveHay [...] planit.com
Steve, Does the tarball for 6.59 work with your WinZip? 6.61_01 doesn't contain much significant change over 6.59, so it would be odd if one worked and the other didn't. Also, the longest path in the archive is about 80 characters and should not have triggered the POSIX format. Hrm.
  Wed Sep 28 23:52:25 2011 mschwern [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'
  Thu Sep 29 14:59:22 2011 shay [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
On Wed Sep 28 23:52:24 2011, MSCHWERN wrote: Show quoted text
> Steve, > > Does the tarball for 6.59 work with your WinZip? 6.61_01 doesn't > contain much significant change over 6.59, so it would be odd if one > worked and the other didn't. > > Also, the longest path in the archive is about 80 characters and should > not have triggered the POSIX format. Hrm.
Oddness rules! 6.59 does indeed work fine with my WinZip 11.1, and 6.61_01 definitely does not.
  Fri Aug 30 17:11:55 2013 BINGOS [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added 5 min
Seems to be resolved, closing ticket.
  Fri Aug 30 17:11:56 2013 BINGOS [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'