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ac100-tarball-installer package

fails to preserve mtimes

Bug #1109197 reported by Colin Watson
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ac100-tarball-installer (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

ac100-tarball-installer fails to preserve mtimes (it uses 'tar xm' rather than just 'tar x'). This means that the GTK+ icon caches can appear to be out of date with respect to the icons alongside them, and no doubt many other similar problems. On my system, this costs 300KB in update-notifier's USS as reported by smem, since update-notifier has to reconstruct the icon theme in memory instead of just mapping the cache.

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

I'm not sure my number of 300KB is complete; I'm still seeing lots of /usr/share/icons/-related junk in update-notifier's heap, which I haven't yet had time to fully investigate. Consider this a minimum, I think ...

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package ac100-tarball-installer - 0.40

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ac100-tarball-installer (0.40) raring; urgency=low

  * Preserve modification times when unpacking the root tarball (LP: #1109197)
  * Call tar with long option names to avoid my eyes crossing at the source.
 -- Adam Conrad <email address hidden> Tue, 29 Jan 2013 12:12:46 -0700

Changed in ac100-tarball-installer (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Released
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Oliver Grawert (ogra) wrote :

re-opening, we had to roll back the patch

Changed in ac100-tarball-installer (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Released → Triaged
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