Re: mc 4.7.0pre3 support for .tlz archives

[Paul Marwick <paulm waitrose com>]

Paul Hartman wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Paul Marwick <paulm waitrose com> wrote:
> > Paul Hartman wrote:
> > > On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Paul Marwick <paulm waitrose com> wrote:
> > > > After a bit of a hunt, I found this in /etc/mc/mc.ext
> > > >
> > > > # .tar.lzma, .tlz
> > > > regex/\.t(ar\.lzma|lz)$
> > > >       Open=%cd %p#utar
> > > >       View=%view{ascii} lzma -dc %f 2>/dev/null | tar tvvf -
> > > >
> > > > :) I'm not exactly expert on mc regex, but I can't see what the problem
> > > > is.
> > > > I also tried renaming a .tlz to .tar.lzma. After doing this, no problem
> > > > opening it, and no problems with mc not recognizing it as a compressed
> > > > tar
> > > > file.
> > > >
> > > > Can anyone see what the problem is? Anyone reproduce the problem?
> > > >
> > > > :) Even better, any suggestions as to a fix that works?
> > >
> > > Do you have the program "lzma" on your system? (I think lzma is
> > > probably a symlink to xz nowdays)
> > Yes, I have /usr/bin/lzma, which is a symlink to xz. As I mentioned, if the
> > file is renamed from .tlz to .tar.lzma, it can be opened correctly, so the
> > system must be finding lzma. So I think the error must be in the regex used
> > to support the .tlz extention. I just can't see it...
>
> Ah, sorry about that, I mis-read it.

No problem. Sorry about sending email direct - didn't realise that this 
list doesn't have Reply-To set. I'll have to keep an eye on that one...

> I think I can see the same problem now. I just tried to rename a
> file.tar.lzma (which MC opened normally) to file.tlz and MC told me it
> "doesn't look like a tar archive". However, when I manually ran the
> command:
>
> lzma -dc file.tlz  2>/dev/null | tar tvvf -
>
> it listed the file's contents as you would expect. md5sum of both
> files are identical.

That sounds like exactly the problem I'm seeing. Its not life 
threatening <g>, but it is a pain, since both Vector and Zenwalk have 
used .tlz packages in the past, and are only slowly moving to .txz.

I assume that it must be an error in the way the regex is structured, 
but I certainly can't see it.

Paul