I recently upgraded from unrar-3.7.3 to 3.7.8, and started receiving weird amavisd failures. I tracked it down to a broken av- option: unrar-3.7.3: /usr/bin/unrar v -c- -p- -av- -idcdp -- /tmp/test.rar Archive /tmp/test.rar Pathname/Comment Size Packed Ratio Date Time Attr CRC Meth Ver ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- gridcontrol install.pdf 288905 228541 79% 13-12-07 12:02 -rw-r----- C6A581EF m3d 2.9 ipf.tar 9216 1201 13% 09-01-08 13:44 -rw-r--r-- 62CE129E m3d 2.9 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 298121 229742 77% unrar-3.7.8: /usr/bin/unrar v -c- -p- -av- -idcdp -- /tmp/test.rar ERROR: Unknown option: av- It's still documented in the 3.7.8 help output: <Switches> [...] av- Disable authenticity verification check Maybe this version should be masked pending resolution?
Based on forum postings, looks like 3.7.5 is broken too.
well, it isnt a matter of unrar-3.7.5+ not supporting it, it's a matter of unrar-3.7.3 and older not flagging it as unsupported with older versions, anything invalid coming after -a was ignored the verification stuff is supposed to be only in the "paid for" version ...
is there any way around this yet? (be it via unrar, or via amavisd-new) it seems unrar-3.7.3 is gone from portage.
create a local unrar script that removes the av option from the cmd line before executing the real unrar
unrar 3.8.5 is an oldest version available in Portage now, and av- option is not documented and supported here. This bug report become objectiveless in 2010.
