[yocto] bitbake is corrupting my files during unpacking

[Andre McCurdy]

On Sat, Jul 21, 2018 at 12:55 AM, MOHAMMAD RASIM
<mohammad.rasim96 at gmail.com> wrote:
> well apparently this is caused by the unzip binary that is compiled by the
> openembedded unzip recipe.
> If I unzip the same zip file with the unzip binary that is shipped with my
> system(manjaro) then the files are not corrupted but when I use the unzip
> binary compiled by the openembedded recipe I get error and file corruptions.
> These are some of the errors I get when unzipping with the openembedded
> unzip:
> ...
> symlink error: File name too long
>
> This error happens to multiple files where the file is symlinked to the
> content of the file and not to a path !
> Where should I report this bug ? openembedded ? unzip upstream ?

If you google the "symlink error" you should find multiple hits, which
all indicate a known bug in upstream unzip 6.0.

So, it should be reported upstream. However, given that the last unzip
release is now over 9 years old and there doesn't appear to be a
public upstream development branch, the chances of getting a timely
response don't look too good.

We should probably add the fix to the unzip recipe in oe-core:

  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=972427