[arch-dev-public] Issues with non-ASCII path names in packages

[Allan McRae]

On 29/10/11 09:08, Allan McRae wrote:
> On 29/10/11 02:23, Pierre Schmitz wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> we found some issues with libarchive and some file names when using the
>> C locale. For example try
>> $ bsdtar tf ca-certificates-20111025-1-any.pkg.tar.xz (from
>> testing)
>> The result will be "bsdtar: Pathname in pax header can't be converted
>> to current locale." Fun fact: The package was created using the C
>> locale. Due to this pacman will refuse to install this package when
>> using the C locale which is used e.g. by our build tools.
>
> Has anyone tested whether the package is created correctly using the
> previous version of libarchive? The previous ca-certificates package has
> non-ASCII filenames in it too and worked fine, so I would suspect this
> is an issue with the current libarchive.

Downgrading libarchive is not enough.  So maybe not a libarchive issue. 
  And rebuilding the ca-certificates package that is in [core] results 
in the same issue.   So what has changed between the time the package in 
[core] was built and now to cause this issue?

Allan