Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 59944
AVFS support requested.
Last modified: 2014-03-16 22:25:36 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.0.2 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20011226 Description of problem: Currently, Red Hat Linux has no support built in for Miklos Szeredi's fantastic AVFS code. From the AVFS homepage (http://www.inf.bme.hu/~mszeredi/avfs/), AVFS is: a system, which enables all programs to look inside gzip, tar, zip, etc. files or view remote (ftp, http, dav, etc.) files, without recompiling the programs. AVFS has the huge advantage over mc of allowing any program (cd, ls, etc.) to look into different types of files. This is a very UNIXy solution. In addition, a gnome-vfs module could be written to take advantage of AVFS, thus sharing code and adding functionality to both GNOME and the command line. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Try to cd into a tarball without installing non-Red Hat provided AVFS package. Additional info:
It requires kernel changes, and, according to the tarball: This is alpha software, you should _NOT_INSTALL_ avfscoda on important servers! Avfscoda has been designed with security in mind, but it may not yet be 100% secure. Do not install it, if local security is very important (i.e. if you do not want a non root user to be able gain root access)! So I don't think it will be added.