Bug 213619 - Can't unpack LZH compressed data
Summary: Can't unpack LZH compressed data
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
Classification: Red Hat
Component: gzip
Version: 4.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
: ---
Assignee: Ivana Varekova
QA Contact: Ben Levenson
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2006-11-02 10:57 UTC by Bastien Nocera
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:07 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

Fixed In Version: RHBA-2007-0502
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2007-06-27 12:36:54 UTC
Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:

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few.R.Z (192.36 KB, application/octet-stream)
2006-11-02 10:58 UTC, Bastien Nocera 		no flags Details
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Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2007:0502 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE gzip bug fix update 2007-11-15 17:35:53 UTC

Description Bastien Nocera 2006-11-02 10:57:59 UTC 
gzip-1.3.3-16.rhel4

This is a regression from gzip-1.3.3-15.rhel4 caused by the fixes from bug 204676

$ gunzip few.R.Z
gunzip: few.R.Z: Bad table (case b)

$ file few.R.Z
few.R.Z: SCO compress -H (LZH) data
Comment 1 Bastien Nocera 2006-11-02 10:58:00 UTC 
Created attachment 140101 [details]
few.R.Z
Comment 2 Ivana Varekova 2006-11-02 15:04:59 UTC 
Could you please attach the source file from which the compress file few.R.Z was
created and could you describe the type of compression which was used.
Comment 3 Joern Gaertner 2006-11-02 15:43:26 UTC 
They used compress -H on SCO OS5.
Further details will follow. I have to wait for the customer.
Comment 5 Ivana Varekova 2006-11-09 15:36:43 UTC 
Could you please attach original (noncompressed) file, from which the attached
compressed file (comment 2) was created.
Comment 7 Ivana Varekova 2006-11-13 12:09:26 UTC 
Thanks.
The test package which fixes this problem are on
http://people.redhat.com/varekova/gzip-1.3.3-16.rhel4.test.i386.rpm
and 
http://people.redhat.com/varekova/gzip-1.3.3-16.rhel4.test.src.rpm.
Comment 9 Ivana Varekova 2006-12-04 10:07:20 UTC 
The package was rebuild the link in comment 7 now contains package which is right.
Comment 11 RHEL Program Management 2006-12-12 16:53:01 UTC 
This bugzilla has Keywords: Regression.  

Since no regressions are allowed between releases, 
it is also being proposed as a blocker for this release.  

Please resolve ASAP.
Comment 18 Red Hat Bugzilla 2007-06-27 12:36:54 UTC 
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2007-0502.html
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