[yocto] bitbake is corrupting my files during unpacking

[Burton, Ross]

Yes, please do.  Mohammad, as you can replicate this on demand, would
you be able to fix the unzip recipe with the patch in that bug and
send a patch?

Ross

On 23 July 2018 at 19:42, Andre McCurdy <armccurdy at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
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