Package: pax Version: 1:20090728-1 Severity: important The version of pax included in stable/lenny computes incredibly large sizes for all .tar archives. Here's a transcript:
clements@computer:/tmp$ cd /tmp clements@computer:/tmp$ cat > foo aoesutha clements@computer:/tmp$ tar cvf foo.tar foo foo clements@computer:/tmp$ ls -l foo.tar -rw-r--r-- 1 clements clements 10240 May 31 16:02 foo.tar clements@computer:/tmp$ /usr/bin/pax -v < ./foo.tar -rw-r--r-- 1 clements clements 4294967305 May 31 16:01 foo pax: ustar vol 1, 1 files, 10240 bytes read, 13823150313071618356 bytes written. clements@computer:/tmp$ ... so, pax believes that the archive contains a file foo that is massively large, even though the actual file size is about 10 chars. This machine is an old i686 running squeeze: clements@computer:/tmp$ uname -a Linux computer 2.6.32-5-686 #1 SMP Tue Mar 8 21:36:00 UTC 2011 i686 GNU/Linux This makes pax unusable for .tar files, and means that the amavisd-new mail scanner fails for all mail containing .tar files. The version of pax in unstable fixes this bug. I'm submitting this bug report per a suggestion from the helpful folks on squeeze-backports, who suggest that this is the right way to get the newer version of pax made a part of either squeeze or squeeze-backports. Thanks! -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.1 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages pax depends on: ii libc6 2.11.2-10 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib pax recommends no packages. pax suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
