New submission from Dave Flogeras <dfloger...@gmail.com>:
I am trying to unpack boost_1_46_1.tar.bz2 (you can grab it here
http://mirror.its.dal.ca/gentoo/distfiles/boost_1_46_1.tar.bz2) with the
following code:
import tarfile
t = tarfile.open( "boost_1_46_1.tar.bz2" );
t.extractall()
On OSX (both Lion and Snow Leopard, so python 2.7.1 and 2.6.1 resp.) this works
as a normal user, but not as root failing with:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File
"/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/tarfile.py",
line 2028, in extractall
self.extract(tarinfo, path)
File
"/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/tarfile.py",
line 2065, in extract
self._extract_member(tarinfo, os.path.join(path, tarinfo.name))
File
"/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/tarfile.py",
line 2157, in _extract_member
self.chown(tarinfo, targetpath)
File
"/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/tarfile.py",
line 2269, in chown
os.chown(targetpath, u, g)
OverflowError: signed integer is greater than maximum
I have confirmed that Python is running as a 64bit application on OSX.
On my 64bit Linux (gentoo) machine, this works both as a user and as root. I
tried with Python 2.7.2 as well as downgrading to 2.7.1.
This could be related to 1215928
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messages: 146800
nosy: Dave.Flogeras
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Unable to deal with large tarfile
versions: Python 2.7
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