On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 8:23 PM, Nagy Gabor <ngaba@bibl.u-szeged.hu> wrote:

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From 2b1a58bda8318b7d0c70a4cfc161a82a156b199b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nagy Gabor <ngaba@bibl.u-szeged.hu> Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 20:03:56 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Use archive_entry_set_perm instead of archive_entry_set_mode

This patch fixes FS#12148 ('unstable' regular file). I also changed the other archive_entry_set_mode usage in add.c to archive_entry_set_perm.

Since I cannot find any relevant info in libarchive manual, I quote Tim Kientzle (the author of libarchive) here, and I say thank you for his help.

*** Tim Kientzle wrote *************************************

This is the problem in libalpm/util.c:

323 if(S_ISREG(st->st_mode)) { 324 archive_entry_set_mode(entry, 0644); 325 } else if(S_ISDIR(st->st_mode)) { 326 archive_entry_set_mode(entry, 0755); 327 }

Your example unstable.db.tar.gz is not empty. It has one entry in it, called "./". That entry is marked as a directory. But, when you call archive_entry_set_mode(), you are changing the file type! archive_read_extract() then creates the file /var/unstable as you requested. (archive_read_extract() will replace an empty directory with a file.)

You should either set the mode value correctly:

323 if(S_ISREG(st->st_mode)) { 324 archive_entry_set_mode(entry, IFREG | 0644); 325 } else if(S_ISDIR(st->st_mode)) { 326 archive_entry_set_mode(entry, IFDIR | 0755); 327 }

Or use archive_entry_set_perm(), which does not change the file type:

323 if(S_ISREG(st->st_mode)) { 324 archive_entry_set_perm(entry, 0644); 325 } else if(S_ISDIR(st->st_mode)) { 326 archive_entry_set_perm(entry, 0755); 327 }

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Signed-off-by: Nagy Gabor <ngaba@bibl.u-szeged.hu> --- lib/libalpm/add.c | 4 ++-- lib/libalpm/util.c | 4 ++-- 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/libalpm/add.c b/lib/libalpm/add.c index 23659c9..3c0074f 100644 --- a/lib/libalpm/add.c +++ b/lib/libalpm/add.c @@ -292,12 +292,12 @@ static int extract_single_file(struct archive *archive, /* the install script goes inside the db */ snprintf(filename, PATH_MAX, "%s%s-%s/install", db->path, newpkg->name, newpkg->version); - archive_entry_set_mode(entry, 0644); + archive_entry_set_perm(entry, 0644); } else if(strcmp(entryname, ".CHANGELOG") == 0) { /* the changelog goes inside the db */ snprintf(filename, PATH_MAX, "%s%s-%s/changelog", db->path, newpkg->name, newpkg->version); - archive_entry_set_mode(entry, 0644); + archive_entry_set_perm(entry, 0644); } else if(*entryname == '.') { /* for now, ignore all files starting with '.' that haven't * already been handled (for future possibilities) */ diff --git a/lib/libalpm/util.c b/lib/libalpm/util.c index 5e6ca0c..1bec634 100644 --- a/lib/libalpm/util.c +++ b/lib/libalpm/util.c @@ -321,9 +321,9 @@ int _alpm_unpack(const char *archive, const char *prefix, const char *fn) entryname = archive_entry_pathname(entry);

if(S_ISREG(st->st_mode)) { - archive_entry_set_mode(entry, 0644); + archive_entry_set_perm(entry, 0644); } else if(S_ISDIR(st->st_mode)) { - archive_entry_set_mode(entry, 0755); + archive_entry_set_perm(entry, 0755); }

/* If a specific file was requested skip entries that don't match. */ -- 1.6.1

Thank you for contacting Tim about this issue and thanks Tim for his help, it is always appreciated :) I made another change to alpm_unpack which is good in my opinion, but it only worked around this problem and hid it. http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/12148#comment37568