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Id: 97748
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  Mon Aug 04 19:38:47 2014 felipe [...] felipegasper.com - Ticket created
Subject: Archive::Tar doesn’t allow creation of an archive with leading /
Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2014 18:38:33 -0500
To: bug-archive-tar [...] rt.cpan.org
From: Felipe Gasper <felipe [...] felipegasper.com>
tar archives are capable of storing “/foo/bar” literally -- i.e., with the leading slash -- but this module always strips out the slash. my $tar_obj = Archive::Tar->new(); $tar_obj->add_data( '/foo', 'my data' ); print Dumper $tar_obj->get_files(); … and you’ll see that the prefix is stored as 'foo', not '/foo'. Even if you twiddle with the ::File object and set ->prefix('/foo'), write() will strip it out.
  Thu Sep 29 11:47:14 2016 jkeenan [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
On Mon Aug 04 19:38:47 2014, felipe@felipegasper.com wrote: Show quoted text
> tar archives are capable of storing “/foo/bar” literally -- i.e., with > the leading slash -- but this module always strips out the slash. >
When you say "are capable" of storing paths with a "leading slash", are you specifically referring to this (GNUtar) option? ##### $ find /tmp/archive-tar-test/ /tmp/archive-tar-test/ /tmp/archive-tar-test/alpha /tmp/archive-tar-test/alpha/foo /tmp/archive-tar-test/beta $ tar --create --verbose --absolute-names --file ~/Downloads/test_via_tar.tar /tmp/archive-tar-test/ /tmp/archive-tar-test/ /tmp/archive-tar-test/alpha/ /tmp/archive-tar-test/alpha/foo /tmp/archive-tar-test/beta/ $ tar --list --absolute-names --file test_via_tar.tar /tmp/archive-tar-test/ /tmp/archive-tar-test/alpha/ /tmp/archive-tar-test/alpha/foo /tmp/archive-tar-test/beta/ ##### (I found that I had to use the '--absolute-names' option upon both creation and listing.) Show quoted text
> my $tar_obj = Archive::Tar->new(); > $tar_obj->add_data( '/foo', 'my data' ); > print Dumper $tar_obj->get_files(); > > … and you’ll see that the prefix is stored as 'foo', not '/foo'. > > Even if you twiddle with the ::File object and set ->prefix('/foo'), > write() will strip it out.
  Thu Sep 29 11:47:14 2016 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'
  Thu Sep 29 12:05:51 2016 felipe [...] felipegasper.com - Correspondence added
Subject: Re: [rt.cpan.org #97748] Archive::Tar doesn’t allow creation of an archive with leading /
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2016 12:05:26 -0400
To: bug-Archive-Tar [...] rt.cpan.org
From: Felipe Gasper <felipe [...] felipegasper.com>
It’s been a while, but I believe I meant that the format itself is capable of storing the absolute path, so it would be reasonable for Archive::Tar to allow the same. -FG Show quoted text
> On 29 Sep 2016, at 11:47 AM, James E Keenan via RT <bug-Archive-Tar@rt.cpan.org> wrote: > > <URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=97748 > > > On Mon Aug 04 19:38:47 2014, felipe@felipegasper.com wrote:
>> tar archives are capable of storing “/foo/bar” literally -- i.e., with >> the leading slash -- but this module always strips out the slash. >>
> > When you say "are capable" of storing paths with a "leading slash", are you specifically referring to this (GNUtar) option? > > ##### > $ find /tmp/archive-tar-test/ > /tmp/archive-tar-test/ > /tmp/archive-tar-test/alpha > /tmp/archive-tar-test/alpha/foo > /tmp/archive-tar-test/beta > > $ tar --create --verbose --absolute-names --file ~/Downloads/test_via_tar.tar /tmp/archive-tar-test/ > /tmp/archive-tar-test/ > /tmp/archive-tar-test/alpha/ > /tmp/archive-tar-test/alpha/foo > /tmp/archive-tar-test/beta/ > > $ tar --list --absolute-names --file test_via_tar.tar > /tmp/archive-tar-test/ > /tmp/archive-tar-test/alpha/ > /tmp/archive-tar-test/alpha/foo > /tmp/archive-tar-test/beta/ > ##### > > (I found that I had to use the '--absolute-names' option upon both creation and listing.) > >
>> my $tar_obj = Archive::Tar->new(); >> $tar_obj->add_data( '/foo', 'my data' ); >> print Dumper $tar_obj->get_files(); >> >> … and you’ll see that the prefix is stored as 'foo', not '/foo'. >> >> Even if you twiddle with the ::File object and set ->prefix('/foo'), >> write() will strip it out.
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