Furthermore, if you delete a symlink pointing to a directory from the archive, every file in the linked directory OUTSIDE the archive gets deleted!
-- 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/322936 Title: File-roller can't just archive symlinks to folders Status in File Roller: New Status in “file-roller” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Binary package hint: file-roller When I tring to add symlinks to folders to my archive File-roller includes that folders to the archive and as far as I can see there is no way to just archive symlinks. And if symlinks are recursive Fileroller makes archives with recursive folders and then complains while unpacking ("Not a folder" many times). ProblemType: Bug Architecture: amd64 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/file-roller NonfreeKernelModules: ath_hal nvidia Package: file-roller 2.24.1-0ubuntu2 ProcEnviron: SHELL=/bin/bash PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8 SourcePackage: file-roller Uname: Linux 2.6.27-11-generic x86_64 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/file-roller/+bug/322936/+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
