File-roller 2.10.x does not handle .rar archives by default, even though unrar x archive.rar works just fine. After emerging rar 3.4.0 everything is ok. Latest file-roller ebuilds should have rar as a dependancy (probably optional, maybe a IUSE flag?) or apply a patch, that wolud enable using unrar as a backend for unpacking .rar files. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge file-roller, while having rar not intalled 2. you may have unrar installed and working 3. try to unpack .rar archive with file-roller Actual Results: failure, file-roller cannot unpack the archive Expected Results: file-roller should use unrar as a backend, or - if not possible - have rar as a (optional) dependancy
Correct, and the same applies to arj. Should we be including these as deps? or offering local use flags?
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=171798 According to that, it should be possible to use unrar, unzip etc. With file-roller-2.10.2 I have no success. Could it be fixed in CVS after 2.10.2? maybe we should rather just backport the fix to a revision in gentoo's ebuild?
indeed it was fixed just after 2.10.2 in CVS. I think it would be good to have a revision fix for that bug though. Otherwise, it's true that file-roller currently doesn't depend on any of the command line archive utils. Could be worth checking into that. One reason is that each utility is optional, but a USE flag for everyone would be too much IMO.
Created attachment 56902 [details, diff] files/file-roller-2.10.2-fix_unrar.patch I thought it was time to get gnome-2.10 unmasked so I try to give a hand.
Created attachment 56903 [details] file-roller-2.10.2-r1.ebuild Tested and works here.
added this to 2.10.0-r1 & 2.10.2, thnx (and yes i know about .3)
