RE: mc (Midnight Commander): View (F3) does not work on a .deb file?
It's because the output from 'file' has changed, and mc is no longer able to
parse it. You can diddle /etc/magic to deal with it... look at the bug list
for 'file' for details (I don't have the bug number handy).
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Marc Wilson
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-----Original Message-----
From: Shaul Karl [mailto:shaulka@bezeqint.net]
Sent: Monday, July 09, 2001 1:41 PM
To: Faheem Mitha
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: mc (Midnight Commander): View (F3) does not work on a .deb
file?
>
>
> On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, Shaul Karl wrote:
>
> > Trying to View (F3) a deb file from within mc (Midnight Commander)
> > gives me a red Error box with the message: `Empty output from child
> > filter'
> >
> > It seems to me that the problem is my respective lines in
~/.mc/bindings:
> >
> > [13:14:57 tmp]$ grep -A4 '# deb' ~/.mc/bindings
> > # deb
> > regex/\.deb$
> > Open=%cd %p#deb
> > View=%view{ascii} ar p %f control.tar.gz | tar xzO control ;
> > echo "" ; echo "Filelist:" ; ar p %f data.tar.gz | tar tzv
> >
> > [13:15:04 tmp]$
> >
> >
> > Do other get this Error? What are the correct lines?
>
> It works fine for me (out of the box) for whatever version of mc
> there is on 2.2r3. The only files I have in .mc are
>
> -rw-r--r-- 1 1000 1000 35 Jul 7 11:36 Tree
> -rw------- 1 1000 1000 514 Jul 7 11:36 history
>
> Tree contains only
>
> Midnight Commander TreeStore v 2.0
>
> and history has some crap in it about the deb files I have accessed.
>
> Did you add the above lines yourself? If so, take them out and it should
> work. I have not customised mc at all, and it works for me.
>
> Faheem.
>
I should have mentioned that I am running testing:
[22:27:49 tmp]$ grep-status -s Version -PX mc
Version: 4.5.51-17
[22:27:54 tmp]$
I have not add the above lines myself. Those lines are given by the deb:
[22:35:55 tmp]$ sed -ne '1,3p
> /# deb/,/^$/p' /etc/mc/mc.ext
# Midnight Commander 3.0 extension file
# Warning: Structure of this file has changed completely with version 3.0
#
# deb
regex/\.deb$
Open=%cd %p#deb
View=%view{ascii} ar p %f control.tar.gz | tar xzO control ; echo ""
;
echo "Filelist:" ; ar p %f data.tar.gz | tar tzv
[22:40:50 tmp]$
I believe your mc version is prior to mine.
The expected behavior of F3 is to get a listing of the files inside the deb.
Just like for rpms, tar and so on.
Like someone else has reported, I get just a flashing screen with an 'enter'
and the associated xterm (ctrl+O) says:
gzip: what_ever_deb_it_is.deb: not in gzip format
I will file a bug against mc.
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Shaul Karl <shaulka@bezeqint.net>
Hillel used to say: If I am not for myself who will be for me?
Yet, if I am for myself only, what am I? And if not now, when?
(Ethics Of The Fathers 1:14)
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