Re: Midnight commander parse errors
On 2011-06-08 19:51 +0200, Brian wrote:
> On Wed 08 Jun 2011 at 11:58:42 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote:
>
>>
>> Am I the only one still seeing Midnight Commander parse errors when
>> trying to look inside deb files ? This has been going on , in my case
>> for two months now. Is there a solution ?
>
> It's the time to use ar -x. Or be patient.
Nah, neither. This is free software after all…
> http://www.midnight-commander.org/ticket/2552
…and there's even a patch available! The bug is in a perl script
(/usr/lib/mc/extfs.d/deb) that you can edit directly if you don't care
about debsums complaining:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
--- deb.orig 2010-09-08 00:00:00.000000000 +0200
+++ deb 2011-05-10 15:46:07.000000000 +0200
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@
{
while(<PIPEIN>)
{
- split;
+ @_ = split;
$perm=$_[0]; $owgr=$_[1]; $size=$_[2];
if($_[3] =~ /^\d\d\d\d\-/) { # New tar format
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@
{
while(<PIPEIN>)
{
- split;
+ @_ = split;
$size=$_[0];
last if $size =~ /:/;
next if $size !~ /\d+/;
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
Rebuilding the package is of course cleaner, but I was too lazy to
do that.
Sven
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