Bug 1805285 - Using the -o option to "make zipfile as old as latest entry" creates an unnecessary copy of the zip
Summary: Using the -o option to "make zipfile as old as latest entry" creates an unnec...
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Status: NEW
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Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: zip
Version: 37
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
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low
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Assignee: Jakub Martisko
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2020-02-20 15:58 UTC by Erik Johnson
Modified: 2022-08-09 13:10 UTC (History)
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Description Erik Johnson 2020-02-20 15:58:00 UTC
Description of problem:
When running "zip -o FILE.ZIP", the program creates a temporary copy of the original zip named "ziXXXXXX", before touching the original and deleting the copy.  This seems entirely unnecessary and resource-consuming for large files.  It should simply scan the central directory and calculate the MAX(date) from there.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Zip 3.0 (July 5th 2008)

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Have (large) zip archive.
2. zip -o FILE.ZIP
3. watch directory under zi*

Actual results:
Free space is consumed while running update, with correct results after several minutes or so depending on size of archive

Expected results:
Immediately re-touched zip file

Comment 1 Ben Cotton 2020-08-11 15:30:08 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 33 development cycle.
Changing version to 33.

Comment 2 Ben Cotton 2021-02-09 16:20:16 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 34 development cycle.
Changing version to 34.

Comment 3 Ben Cotton 2022-05-12 15:32:34 UTC
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Comment 4 Ben Cotton 2022-08-09 13:10:46 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora Linux 37 development cycle.
Changing version to 37.


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