Bug 273461

Summary:	app-arch/unrar-gpl breaks rar opening functionality of media-gfx/comix
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Zachary <pizzach>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Hanno Böck <hanno>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	denilsonsa
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Zachary 2009-06-10 00:48:51 UTC

Recently unrar-gpl appeared when I did my usual "emerge -uDN world -av".  It installed and the next time I opened comix to view some comic book material, it was unable to open rar archives to view the internal image files. Broken image icons were used in the place of the actual images.

I did "emerge -C app-arch/unrar-gpl" and everything was fine again because comix started defaulting to app-arch/rar again.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Install media-gfx/comix (rar USE flag enabled)
2.Make sure app-arch/unrar-gpl is installed if it didn't already.
3.Try opening a rar archive of images using Comix.

Actual Results:  
Broken images.

Expected Results:  
Viewable images like normal.

From what I can tell, unrar-gpl's extract switch is "-e" while rar's extract switch is "e".  I have a strong feeling this is the source of the problem.  Either Comix should block unrar-gpl from installing, the rar useflag be removed, or a patch be applied to the program to fix the problem.

Comment 1 Zachary 2009-06-10 09:45:21 UTC

Hm...Looks like it's media-video/mplayer pulling app-arch/unrar-gpl in with it's new rar flag.

Comment 2 Hanno Böck gentoo-dev

2009-06-13 21:42:45 UTC

The problem is most likely that unrar-gpl cannot open recent rar files. IMHO the proper fix would be that comix first tries rar and then unrar, cause if full rar is installed, the user most likely wants to use that.

An even better fix would be a free unrar capable of opening current rar files, but seems nobody is working on that atm...

Comment 3 Zachary 2009-06-13 21:58:00 UTC

(In reply to comment #2)
> The problem is most likely that unrar-gpl cannot open recent rar files. IMHO
> the proper fix would be that comix first tries rar and then unrar, cause if
> full rar is installed, the user most likely wants to use that.
> 
> An even better fix would be a free unrar capable of opening current rar files,
> but seems nobody is working on that atm...
> 

Agreed.  From what it looks like this is the first version of unrar-gpl (0.0.1) so the comix author likely doesn't know about it yet.  Might be best to report it upstream and see what happens.

Comment 4 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-03-06 23:03:08 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 267913 ***