This BUG manifests in 12.10, 13.04 and 13.10 but NOT in 12.04 Apparently this functionality is either considered perfect and/or not important enough to warrant QA regression testing.
When a non-empty directory gets extracted, its datetime stamp is immediately restored but recursive extraction of its content (files, folders, etc) will update that directory's datetime stamp with the time of extraction. In 12.04, the datetime stamp restoration was delayed until after all content had been extracted. Until it gets fixed upstream (2013 perhaps), the following CLI command will allow proper extraction of a tar.bz2 archive: tar --delay -xvf tar-archive-name tar -xvf tar-archive-name MAY yield unpredictable results My eyes have trouble seeing the double hypen in "--dash" as I type this, so I will refer to them as "hyphen hyphen". "hypen hypen" delay is an acceptable abbreviation of the option "hypen hyphen" delay-directory-restore -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to file-roller in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1133663 Title: Extract Here fails to preserve timestamps for non-empty folders Status in “file-roller” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Extract Here fails to preserve timestamps for non-empty folders. This functionally WORKED in 12.04, got DESTROYED in 12.10 and has not been fixed in either 64-bit 3.5.0-25-generic #39~precise1-Ubuntu SMP Tue Feb 26 00:07:14 UTC 2013 or 64-bit 3.8.0-7-generic #15-Ubuntu SMP Thu Feb 21 20:07:18 UTC 2013 Since I make use of this functionally frequently each day, I have avoided 12.10 except to determine if certain bugs have been fixed. I would appreciate having this ROADBLOCK to using 13.04 removed. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/file-roller/+bug/1133663/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
