Description of problem: Trying to open jboss-bpmsuite-6.1.2-patch.zip on Windows with built in zip utility fails: Windows cannot open the folder Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Download jboss-bpmsuite-6.1.2-patch.zip to a Windows machine 2. Try to extract it using Windows Explorer 3. Actual results: Extracting fails Expected results: Extracting works as expected Additional info: This is due to the file name limit of 260 characters in Windows. The patch archive, however, contains files which exceed this limit: $ unzip -l jboss-bpmsuite-6.1.2-patch.zip |awk -F' ' '{print $4}'|wc -L 323 Example of such a long path: jboss-bpmsuite-6.1.2-patch/updates/wls12c/new-content/business-central.war/WEB-INF/classes/org/jboss/errai/marshalling/server/impl/ServerMarshallingFactoryImpl$Marshaller_for_org_drools_workbench_models_guided_dtree_shared_model_parser_messages_AmbiguousRootParserMessageImpl.class This problem is showing up with the zip distributions of the platform as well, see related BZ: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1203726 Workaround: - Use 3rd party tools (eg. 7zip) to extract the zip file - Use java's jar command to extract the zip file: jar.exe -xvf jboss-bpmsuite-6.1.2-patch.zip
This is the same/similar issue to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1203726#c9 Looking at the comments in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1203726#c11 Could we mark this as fixed?