[Fwd: [FOLLOW UP] Re: How to make a tarball?]

[James Tyrer]

This gets worse: see below!

> Regarding the: "Compress -> Here":
>
> Although this is a bug and should be deleted, it is in the list of
> "Services" in the Konqueror KCM so you can simply turn it off. :-)
>
> You can fix the other issues by editing the file:
>
> $KDEDIR/share/kde4/services/ServiceMenus/ark_addtoservicemenu.desktop
>
> Please note that the command for "Here" is:
>
> Exec=ark --changetofirstpath --add --autofilename tar.gz %F
>
> and that the command for the misnamed: "As ZIP/TAR Archive" is:
>
> Exec=ark --changetofirstpath --add --autofilename tar.gz %F
>
> What am I missing here -- they look identical to me.  I am not allowed
> to make any derogatory statements, so I can only ask you to draw your
> own conclusions.
>
> If you want to add the other commands which are missing, you can add
> them to this file.

Haven't finished with TAR-BZIP2 yet, but I think that I have found the
problem.

Could I ask that someone please check their installation from a distro
and see if you have the command lines as listed above?  The reason that
I ask is that I wonder if your distro might have fixed the problem.

I found that if I removed: "--changetofirstpath " that it then works
correctly and I get a TAR file that doesn't start with: "/../.." and
actually starts with the directory displayed in Konqueror where I used
the Ark service -- which is the expected result.

It is things like this that really make we wonder.

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[Patrick Nagel]

Hi James,

On 2009-10-25 22:34 UTC James Tyrer wrote:
> This gets worse: see below!
[...]
> Could I ask that someone please check their installation from a
>  distro and see if you have the command lines as listed above?  The
>  reason that I ask is that I wonder if your distro might have fixed
>  the problem.

All commands have the --changetofirstpath options in them on my distro
(Gentoo).

> I found that if I removed: "--changetofirstpath " that it then works
> correctly and I get a TAR file that doesn't start with: "/../.." and
> actually starts with the directory displayed in Konqueror where I
>  used the Ark service -- which is the expected result.

Strange. Still works for me (from Dolphin and from Konqueror), even
though I didn't remove the '--changetofirstpath' option.

Patrick.

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[James Tyrer]

Patrick Nagel wrote:

> Hi James,
>
> On 2009-10-25 22:34 UTC James Tyrer wrote:
>> This gets worse: see below!
> [...]
>> Could I ask that someone please check their installation from a
>>  distro and see if you have the command lines as listed above?  The
>>  reason that I ask is that I wonder if your distro might have fixed
>>  the problem.
>
> All commands have the --changetofirstpath options in them on my distro
> (Gentoo).
>
>> I found that if I removed: "--changetofirstpath " that it then works
>> correctly and I get a TAR file that doesn't start with: "/../.." and
>> actually starts with the directory displayed in Konqueror where I
>>  used the Ark service -- which is the expected result.
>
> Strange. Still works for me (from Dolphin and from Konqueror), even
> though I didn't remove the '--changetofirstpath' option.
>

This may be a recent regression then.  Noticed that there were recent
updates to Ark in SVN KDE-4.3 BRANCH.  I will update my build and then
get back to this.

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