file timestamps not preserved

[Andrey Gursky]

On Tue, 18 Apr 2017 17:06:57 +0200 Andrey Gursky wrote:

> On Tue, 18 Apr 2017 15:55:58 +0200 Andrey Gursky wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 18 Apr 2017 16:30:36 +0300 Nerijus Baliūnas wrote:
> > 
> > > 2017-04-18 16:09, Andrey Gursky rašė:
> > > > Hi Nerijus,
> > > > 
> > > > On Tue, 18 Apr 2017 15:33:50 +0300 Nerijus Baliunas wrote:
> > > > 
> > > >> Hello,
> > > >> 
> > > >> mc 4.8.19 does not preserve timestamps of files, if they are copied from 
> > > >> tar.gz, cpio
> > > >> archives. But copying from zip is OK.
> > > > 
> > > > I've built now mc (git master) on Debian testing, entered a tar.gz
> > > > archive and copied a file on ext4 fs. The timestamp of the extracted
> > > > file was OK.
> > > > 
> > > > For me more info for reproducing would be needed.
> > > 
> > > It's latest Fedora package. It is pure mc-4.8.19.tar.xz with one minor patch:
> > > -#define TMPDIR_DEFAULT "/tmp"
> > > +#define TMPDIR_DEFAULT "/var/tmp"
> > > 
> > > Build flags are:
> > > %configure \
> > >          CFLAGS="%{optflags} -Wno-strict-aliasing" \
> > >          --disable-rpath \
> > >          --enable-aspell \
> > >          --enable-charset \
> > >          --enable-largefile \
> > >          --enable-vfs-cpio \
> > >          --enable-vfs-extfs \
> > >          --enable-vfs-fish \
> > >          --enable-vfs-ftp \
> > >          --enable-vfs-sfs \
> > >          --enable-vfs-sftp \
> > >          --enable-vfs-smb \
> > >          --enable-vfs-tar \
> > >          --without-x \
> > >          --with-gpm-mouse \
> > >          --with-screen=ncurses \
> > >          %{nil}
> > 
> > I've tested also cpio and for it I can confirm the issue.
> 
> I'll propose a patch for this (hopefully shortly).
> 
> For tar.gz I'd need a preferably small sample file.

I received the file and was able to reproduce the issue.

Regards,
Andrey