I'm having an issue where certain Features created with my local system (running MAMP 1.8.2 at this point) and Features 6.x-1.0-beta3 cannot be untarred.

I removed the calls to gzencode, and the resulting files were still not valid tar archives.

Since MAMP has PEAR Archive_Tar built in, I decided to try to whip up a quick version of Features that would write the feature to the temp directory through Archive_Tar and then transfer that file to the browser, and it is working for several team members where unpatched beta3 did not.

Attached is the code - it's in very rough shape right now, as it kills gzencode processing and has an non-settable variable to try to use Archive_Tar.

I'll try to clean it up later this week.

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features-tar-issue-smerrill.patch2.47 KBSteven Merrill

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Steven Merrill’s picture

Steven Merrill commented
Title: Cannot untar file » Use Archive_Tar if available to avoid corrupted archives

Issue title change.

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Macronomicus commented

Quite annoying to not be able to open the tar with 7zip ... I couldnt figure why its not working as I am normally able to open them. My Test server is running Ubuntu Server 8.10

I am able to untar the files from the command line in my server but when trying with 7zip on my desktop it fails when going to open the inner tar... says cannot open file.

I have tested your patch and it does switch it to tar but the file is still not able to be opened. ..on my winblows desktop with 7zip.

ugh! ....somethign in my server settings?

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yhahn commented
Status: Needs work » Closed (duplicate)

Please follow up on this issue here http://drupal.org/node/522794#comment-2103418